It all started off with a light tap across my face as I was driving the car once after picking him up in one of his many drunken stoopers in a local bar that he had since been barred from. I remember it annoying me, then the taps became harder as he slapped me full force as we sat in the car waiting for the traffic lights to change.

He just wanted to cause me pain…and he certainly achieved that down the line of our relationship. I guess it annoyed him that more and more bars were banning him from their establishments due to his unpredictable behaviour so he would just take his added frustrations out on me instead. It made it worse when the local shops stopped selling him cans of beer also because of his abhorrent behaviour.

One time my neighbours began twitching their curtains as he