
The luckiest thing you can have happen to you ironically, is if they dump you. It will happen as quickly as they started the relationship with you-with no warning, no reason, no hint. You will be shocked with it. One minute they will be planning a vacation with you, the next minute they are moving their things out of the house. They will cruelly tell you that they don’t love you, aren’t sure they ever did, you don’t make them happy, and that they are done. Or you will learn that they are with someone else and then when you confront them, they bail. They leave, they change their phone number, they delete their email-they simply disappear.
If you are married, you will be served with divorce papers when just the day before, he gave you a kiss on the cheek and promised a romantic dinner with you over the weekend. You never saw it coming, it was like a tornado hit you, your mind is reeling and spinning from the wind that is blowing, the emotional shrapnel to you. Typically, it comes during a period of “peace.” It is meant to be shocking, to pull the rug from underneath your world, to leave you in a state of suspended animation.
With this, he can maneuver and connive and take things from right under your nose, while you are in the grips of the psychic shock. Bank accounts are cleaned out, wills changed, life insurance policies altered, children taken, names taken off of things, credit cards closed or maxed out-they don’t just leave you, but they leave you with a big FUCK YOU, and you never did anything to deserve it. You desperately try to reason and communicate, to even get a “break up” speech-what did you do, why are they doing this? In which is crazy in and of itself, because you should be well glad to be rid of him, and you yourself contemplated leaving him.
In this manner of leaving you, it is once again a way to doubt yourself, take the blame and fall victim to being the abuser-after all, you must’ve been horrible for him to leave you in this way. When you finally emerge from the shock and awe, your emotional paralysis subsiding, you find yourself in a rage and anger the likes of which you didn’t realize you had in you. Your own anger and rage scares you, and now you are determined with all of your might, to make him pay.

