John Bingham wrote: ↑Fri Sep 25, 2020 8:09 pm Many of these crimes where wives kill their husbands are reported as being after years of often drunken abuse. I'm not excusing them, but they could often desperate acts perpetrated by people who have just had enough. Then again, I've heard of plenty of violent women too, luckily I've never been involved with any but quite a few friends have!

I agree. And I think this is part of the problem. The reasons for the provocation of women’s violence is often listed, and quite often, understood. There are a lot of men in Cambodia who are just horrible to their wives. And a lot of women are horrible to their husbands. Some are violent in much more manipulative ways than the simple drunken battering of their partner. The damage is often far greater than a bruise on the face as well.

A friend of mine had 3 kids with an Asian-American woman. She was fantastic. Great wife and mom for 15 years. Then she made an elaborate financial scam and stole $500k out of a bunch of investors. Ended up in jail for 5 years. She will be deported. My mate lost his house that he was 3 years away from paying off at 44 yrs old. Wife was giving the money to her parents who retired to Vietnam. He didn’t know about it. He noticed extra money but she cut hair and did nails on the side and said she had been busy.

3 years later he meets the next love of his life. He makes a decent living. She moves 500km to live with him, he buys her a car, she becomes his kids step-mom, he gives her an allowance til she gets a job, they get engaged after 6 months. He spends a good $30k on her. They’re planning the wedding. She’s a dream come true!! A mate finds out she’s working for an escort service in the daytime while he’s at work. A Mate and I both went over, informed him about it, took his guns away, and made him swear to not use any physical violence against her.

We encouraged him to play out that battle longer like a woman would play it and that’s exactly what he’s doing.