Wise words.
My twin was married to the wrong one for over 30 years. Verbal abuse is always mental and emotional abuse. He never hit her though he did raise his fist a few times and then thought better of it. He was highly trained in martial arts and perhaps that's why he stopped. He knew the damage he could do.
After awhile she became numb to being ignored. When they first met they'd talk till the sun came up, each one not realizing the time. After they married, gradually over years, she would talk at him, or aloud, and he'd never say a word. Unless he wanted to talk about something that he was interested in.
One day she called in tears. She'd asked him why they didn't talk like they use to, for hours, getting lost to the time and lost in each other.
To this day I remember the answer she said he gave her. This one of the last few conversations we shared together before she passed on. He told her, "Because you don't have anything to say worth listening to."
He was a liar, a sneak, and a thief. And the worst thing that ever happened to her life. He was also her first and last husband.
Whatever you do, as a young single person, especially if you are in your teens. Don't marry that young. She was 25 when they wed. And still, she said, it was too soon. Because in the end she was married to him longer than she'd been alive before they met.
Something she told me in a note she mailed of random thoughts. She'd do that when she was down. I think a lot of the times she did these things so when I found someone who sounded like they were living the same issues as she, I'd share them. Below are but two.
"When you're young and think to marry and be with someone forever experiment first. Pick your two favorite foods. Entree and a dessert. Eat just those two things for a week. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Because that's marriage. One person, day or night, good or bad, for the rest of your life. When you're a teen you stand to live 50 to 60 years. Now imagine, that one entree, one dessert, and only those, for six decades!"
"When we meet someone we're really attracted to forever doesn't seem long enough. When you marry the wrong person that last line in the vows changes you. "Till death us do part..." In a bad marriage there are many ways to die."
When she passed on she knew I'm sure and I realized later through the grief, had she divorced him, given the average lifespan of a healthy female, she would have had less years to live so as to find the right man, than she'd spent with the wrong one.