“Maybe now you’ll learn your place,” my mother-in-law sneered after my husband attacked me while I held our sick baby post-surgery. Weak and trembling, I locked us in the room and dialed one number. Minutes later, heavy boots kicked down the front door, and my husband’s face went pale as my father walked in wearing his general’s uniform and said…

control that brat’?”

“I never said such a vile thing!” Patricia gasped, clutching her pearls. “I was in shock!”

James held up a piece of cream-colored stationery. “Were you in shock three days later when you mailed this letter to my client? Let me read an excerpt to the jury: ‘If you were a proper wife and mother, Troy wouldn’t have lost his temper. continue reading …