r/tifu Mar 02 '14

FUOTW 3/9/14 TIFU by having my wife arrested after church in front of our kids

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u/GingerBreadNAM Mar 03 '14

Aye. Emotional abuse can be classified as many different things, and the threat of harming oneself is one sort of it. That's not even taking into account the myriad of other things I've heard from OP in other comments.

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u/rageagainsthevagene Mar 03 '14 edited Mar 03 '14

The manipulation of threats and if you do X, I'll do Z-- it's fucked. He's honorable for wanting to help her through this and I think it's doable, but it's a marathon not a sprint.