You know what you need to do --end the relationship. It’s only going to get worse. Never let someone abuse you if you don’t absolutely have to. There might be times that you’ll miss her but someone like that will escalate their abuse if you endure it.

Oddly enough, that was my first thought too.

I would still name him Jeremiah.

It’s a common thing in this house. Both my roommate and myself do it. I’m a frequent midnight snacker. Roommate’s son isn’t though. It’s weird to me that you’ve never known anyone who doesn’t. Maybe it’s an American thing. I don’t know.

Claudish: This is a hard stop: cry havoc, and release the dogs of war.

Indeed it is, Claude.

Just look at them. They already are an empanada filling.

When I was 11, I was annoying my mom a lot so naturally, she lunged at me with a butchers knife.

When I was 16, she beat me in the head with her fists.

I’m 55 now and she died when I was 30. You know what’s weird? I wish she had stabbed me when I was 11. She would have had to explain that. Then again, if someone had seen her threaten me for once. My half-sister saw her beat me in the head with her fists and Mama suffered no consequences so she probably wouldn’t have then either.

GASP!! Why, the nerve of that guy!

Hell yeah! It would be a vast improvement.

That’s what I thought too. I guess I’m too lazy to be a serial killer.