At what moment did you realize you were dating an idiot?

Besides kicking the dog, which is super fucked up, it sounds like he didn't do much. Maybe my view is skewed because I had an abusive father and shit like this was regular. But just because you were frightened doesn't mean he was going to hurt you. You say you "had to beg him not to hurt you". I don't necessarily believe you. I'm sure that you were begging him to hurt you, but I'm not sure you needed to beg him, and that your begging was the reason he didn't hurt you. I'm not saying you did anything wrong, of course you have no idea how the hell someone is going to act when they're in a rage, but I find it wrong to assume that he was close to hurting you. In many people's minds there's a huge difference between property destruction and physically harming another person. You say you thought he was going to kill you, but he didn't put so much as a finger on you. This is what happened: his rage frightened the fuck out of you, and adrenaline was pumping through your body like crazy, and you were panicked. Again, I had to deal with shit like this on a weekly, almost daily basis as a child. Who knows, maybe he would have hit you, of course it's a possibility, but as it stands it seems like the punishment doesn't fit the crime.

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