No, Mookie provided about Tracy´s story has nothing do with my thread because there´re no RO issues in Tracy´s story. We didn´t know what sort of personatily Tracy´s boyfriend has before they married. I can´t answer to this question because I don´t know Tracy´s story. I talk about FACT, not EXAMPLE... Got it?
Exactly. Because if in Tracys story someone got RO in time what happened would NOT have happened. That is the whole and ONLY point.........
All Mookie wanted to say: it is
better to get RO
for nothing than
NOT take one and
be sorry later..
it also doesn't matter what kind of personality Tracy's BF had - you said so yourself- abusers pretend to be nice until is too late. So what does it matter what personality he had? And for the last time you don't need Tracy's story to just ANSWER MOOKIE'S QUESTION. Why didn't you?
First of all Tracy was not a minor at the time of marrying Buck Thurman. She was 30 years old, She married immediately after graduating from college. It has to be her (Tracy) to be the one to file a RO on Buck which she did. It would be out of Tracy's mother's control. This thread is related to a minor RO, not an adult.
Please, it DOESN'T MATTER.
suppose she HAD a mother. suppose it happened when she was 16...suppose her mother got the good sense of getting RO against Buck...
Daughter and boyfriend are still together over 16 months after this situation. They are happy. What´s your problem? Daughter would finish with him if he keep on control, abuse, etc on her... Mother let daughter to learn her experience what good or bad... but it´s good for mother to let her daughter know what she think of her boyfriend.
My problem -in general- is that abused girls and women do not admit to being abused- they hide it. They excuse, they lie, deny, they rationalize the abuser's behaviour, they blame themselves for upsetting them,
they are scared and/ or ashamed to admit they are being abused and sometimes the truth come to the surface when it is too late- they are in hospital with broken bones, jaws or dead. Or worse, their children are hurt.
So, NO- the daughter MIGHT NOT finish with him if he turns out to be abusive.
Just because they are a year and half together mean nothing to me. Nobody knows the truth but them.
Hypothetically the 16 girl can be ashamed to admit her mother was right, or scared of her BF to break it up with him. Sure she say they are happy but who knows the truth. Maybe they really are, I don't know..
Sometimes BF or man tells the woman if she leaves him he will find her and kill her.
That is why I understand why a mother want to seek RO or PO if she feels something is wrong.
Also many mothers, fathers, family relatives, friends even if they KNOW and SEE their daughter, sister... etc being abused and they BEG her to seek help and get away from abusive relationship they won't listen! don't you know that?
So what good the mother is doing by letting her daughter go live with potential abuser?? right into the hands of abuse ??
I would suggest mother to suggest her daughter and boyfriend to live together to find out either they are right each other or not because it´s better than divorce...
Come on, she 16 she should stay in school get good grades and get good education overall to have a good job in future and be independent. What does she need to play 'adult' now for???
Again, verbally/physical abuse is mainly, I worry about, not harmless things like few years difference ages, mistakes, etc. I don´t run to police to get RO because I don´t like girl,
I wasn't saying anything about few years diffrence either. I was saying about him being controlling - in the link it says not only Mom but the girl's friend's told he is overly controlling. That would raise red flags for me.
Another thing - if my daughter's BF forbade her to go visit Grandma he would be quickly straightened out- out of the house, forever. with light speed.
So, would you let your 16 old daughter drop off school, risk get pregnant and marry an abusive bum because that is HER choice?
Huh? Never mind!
You wrote you would respect you children choices even if they were different form yours..
mistakes BUT BIG MAINLY IMPORTANT,
it starts small.. as you've said the abusers cover their tracks very well. Only a hindsight is the best sight. By then is too late.
Fuzzy