The following day my mother told me he came by the house looking for me. I had spent the night with a friend and he was upset that he couldn’t find me.
I was 17 and pregnant with our first child.
“I was angry at myself for not leaving the first time he hit me. I would tell him to sleep with one eye open,” she confessed. I used to wish that a bus or a truck would hit him. I contemplated throwing hot water on him while he slept. “I thought of many ways in which I could hurt him. Reminiscing on the intimate-partner violence which became the fabric of her life, Antoinette said there were times she thought of revenge. She a mi wife! She a mi every ting! And mi jus thank God for all of the great things that he has done in my life, that I can just honour my wife and respect her,” he said. “As a man with more knowledge, I know she felt real bad. Some of the unspoken things Antoinette went through with her husband he may have forgotten, but what he remembers clearly includes the verbal and physical abuse. I am just a new man now, where God has control of my life.” “Old things are passed away and all things become new. He added that when a man comes in contact with Jesus, he sees things totally different.
I did some things that were not right in the sight of God.” I was perishing from a lack of knowledge. Looking back, Christopher said he was ignorant, “and the Bible says lack of knowledge will let my people perish. But the main thing is that when you seek God, you see things differently,” he shared. His abusive behaviour lasted for several of the 27 years that he has been with his wife. But more so, no man should ever feel empowered to silence her!”įlipping the coin to tell the story from the man’s side, The Sunday Gleaner gave Christopher Allen, a real estate developer/businessman, the opportunity to explain why he felt the need to beat his woman to a frazzle. No woman should feel like she has to suffer in silence. “The ‘16 Days of Activism’ (which began on November 25, which is celebrated as International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to December 10th Human Rights Day) means a lot to me. Sign up for The Gleaner’s morning and evening newsletters.
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