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Look - if what she said was true, he PUT A KNIFE TO HER THROAT!!!!  Now it says she "didn't know the consequences of calling 911"  HELLO!!!  Have some SELF RESPECT!  If he put a knife to your throat - GET OUT, STAY OUT and take the kids!!!  If he DIDN'T put a knife to your throat - FESS UP and take the consequences...   

but she HAD to have known what she was in for... everyone else did.  I have to suspect she wanted him for his "bad boy/rich" image - and now she's realizing there was a REASON he has it.  I don't get it at all.  Either ONE of them.  Why would you DATE someone that treated his FIRST wife the way he did - and why would you PULL A KNIFE on the MOTHER of your BABIES!  I think they are BOTH sick.

Seriously - if YOU want to be beat up/killed - okay then - go for it... but you have NEWBORNS!!!  How on EARTH could you let someone that violent be around your KIDS!  Seriously - they deserve each other.  I TOTALLY get it if you have no money - and you have NO WHERE else to go - I get how you would feel stuck - but from what I udnerstand her family is loaded!

Yeah that's a big mess, first it was he threatened to kill her, then it was he was defending himself because SHE had the knife and now it's he had the knife to her throat. Neither one of them can keep their story straight so it makes me wonder if she started out with it and he got it away from her.
Either way it's scary that they would be acting like that when they have babies in the house!! If you hate each other, get divorced. Don't be pulling knives out. Good grief.

I'm trying to imagine Paul and I EITHER of us having a knife in an argument.  He kicked the bathroom door five years ago and THAT scared the shit out of me... a KNIFE?  Mark my words - she's going to end up like Nicole Brown Simpson.  Denise Richards tweeted that when she can she's gonna tell EVERYTHING... I'm not a big fan of hers either...  they're all fucked up as far as I'm concerned.... I personally think that CPS should come in and take the kids and say "look - you're living with a man that put a knife to your throat... it's him or the kids - but not both!"

Wow. I know (from writing papers on it) that a lot of women recant their stories after the fact. They don't realize the severity of the law and don't want their husbands to go to jail. As to why a woman wouldn't want someone that beats/threatens her to go to jail, I have no clue. He might meet his match there.
Anyways, it's really common for this to happen.
As far as what I think she's a fucking idiot. You have twin boys, aside from the obvious CHOOSE THEM OVER CHARLIE, if he pulls this shit again, and again (which another statistic says it will happen again) she's showing her boys that it's okay to treat women that way.

if that is true and he did pull a knife on her shes effin stupid for wanting him back, no effing way i would step foot back into a realationship with anyone who ever did that to me!

my god is all i have to say.......
I have to agree with you all, why allow yourself to be put through that!??

Crazy!! Why would you stay with such an abusive man?

I have told DH that if he ever hits me,pulls a weapon on me...we are DONE!  NO second chances because if they do it once, it's a pretty good bet that they'll do it again.

I have been in an abusive relationship and I get it..

I had a place to go to.. It's more than that and hard to explain..

I didn't have babies, but I had a knife to my throat.. I stayed for a little while longer.. it was hard to leave, but did it.. eventually.. again, really hard to explain the thought process in that situation..

God you guys - I am so sorry... the worst I ever had was my ex DH held me up against a wall...