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It’s been a rough week.Seven years ago, I was killed from a knife to the back.My wife of fourteen years plunged the knife into my back and left me bleeding on the cold wooden floor. Then, with the kids sleeping peacefully upstairs, she slipped out the door and into the night for the last time.Somehow, I found the strength to rise to my knees and drag myself to my bedroom with the invisible knife still lodged deep in my back. I cried myself to sleep, praying that the pain would end.But there was no relief to be found.The next morning, with the alarm screaming in my ear, I woke up and tried to start my day. The knife was buried too deep. The pain was too intense. I took care of the kids and then I crawled back into bed, hoping that sleep would rouse me from this waking nightmare.But it didn’t.Days turned into weeks. Weeks turned into months. Months turned into strawberries. Not really… I’m just making sure you’re still paying attention!I never got her side of the story. She never adequately explained why she stabbed me in the back. I never understood. My desire for closure caused the knife that she left in my back to throb.As I grew to accept that some stories just don’t have an ending, the pain eventually subsided. It became more of an itch. A bruise from a forgotten injury.Two days ago, the pain came back in full force, as a ghost from the past appeared to twist the blade.My ex-wife is running for mayor of a small town up north. Maybe I’ve mentioned that before… On the first of October, 2019, she hosted a fundraiser and donation drive in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness month.At this event, she spoke of her experiences as a victim of domestic violence. This speech was recorded and placed on her Facebook page for anyone to see. She claimed that her first husband was aggressive and abusive for the entire length of her marriage, and she only managed to escape after he raped her in a desperate attempt to control her.“Huh,” I thought. “That’s weird. I didn’t know she was married before me!”Ha! I kid because it’s easier than dealing with real emotion!After seven years, I finally learned her side of the story.And it’s a doozy.I learned that we experienced two very different versions of the same marriage. I learned that the entire time I remained wholly devoted to her, she was only pretending to love me to keep up appearances. I learned that she was responsible for everything good and I was just a “good provider” that took her to Disney World a couple of times and held her hand at church.That’s all. My only redeeming qualities out of my entire fourteen-year marriage were my wallet and holding her hand at church.She could have gotten the same experience from a novelty purse.According to her, she questioned our marriage all along. If she had given me any indication that our marriage was anything but solid and stable, I never would have agreed to adopt. It’s wrong to bring children into a messed-up situation like that.But we did adopt, and less than two years later, she was gone and I was left bleeding on the floor. (This is metaphorical blood… You get that, right? She didn’t literally stab me or anything…)I’ve written elsewhere about the circumstances surrounding my divorce. How she lied to me and about me for months leading up to her departure. How she gaslighted me and tricked me into having sex with her when she returned, claiming she wanted to work on our marriage. How she left me and the kids to struggle along with no physical or financial support.She paints a different picture. She claims that she was never sure about our marriage. She claims that the trouble began early, and never really stopped. She claims that I would physically restrain her until she apologized for having the audacity to have an opinion that differed from my own. She talks about the adoption, but she doesn’t explain why she thought it would be wise to bring two kids into a marriage she believed was unstable. She claims that I raped her in a last, desperate attempt to control her, and that the only reason she didn’t take the kids when she left was because I came home too soon and she couldn’t figure out a way to take them without upsetting them. She claims that I sent her a text message a couple of weeks ago in an attempt to intimidate her into silence and submission.I wrote about that last claim in another post (Stewart Dean's answer to Have you ever been falsely accused?). In that post, I edited the text for comedic effect. Attached below is the entire exchange between me and my ex-wife regarding this matter.Is that an attempt to intimidate her into silence and submission? That certainly wasn’t my intention. If anything, I was trying to convey concern. I even said I didn’t believe that she would say the things about me that the person claimed were being said!Minutes later, I received this text message from her current husband:Who is trying to intimidate whom?Send us the email or we’ll force you to waste your time and money to come to our state and testify.I’m a contract employee. Every day I’m not at work is a day I don’t get paid. My ex-wife hardly pays anything in child support. She certainly doesn’t pay enough child support for me to afford traveling to testify — never mind the fact that my testimony would only blow up in her face! If it’s her contention that the current mayor is slandering her, it probably wouldn’t help her case if I was forced to testify that the contents of the email revealed that she was slandering me!So what did I learn about myself from all this?Nothing.I wanted closure for so long. I wanted to know her side of the story. I wanted to understand why she left. I wanted to comprehend why she refused to help out with the kids.And now that I have all that? I feel empty somehow. The person she described is not me — has never been me. It’s all a fantasy cooked up in her head to justify her horrible behavior. “I’m not the bad guy for walking out on a fourteen-year marriage and two kids! I’m the victim!”I transcribed the entire video, adding commentary to every lie and inaccuracy. There were over 50 footnotes for a 20-minute video. I want to respond publicly, but I feel as if I would just be screaming into the void…I’ve told my story on here before. Why doesn’t she have the right to tell hers?My story is documented. I have phone logs and emails to back my story up. Last year, I was interviewed by the police. I have countless friends, neighbors, and relatives — none of whom could support any allegation she has made. I have never made a single claim that couldn’t be backed up with a paper trail or prima facie evidence.She has no evidence that anything she says is true. She has a pitiful story and nothing else.But I’m the one left with the dull ache of the knife sticking out of my back…

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