domestic violence Archives - Betrayal and Acrimony

Santiago has grown progressively worse. He has taken to walking around the house naked independent of who is home. Santiago consumes alcohol throughout the day, and when it runs out, his thirteen-year-old grandson gives him money to continue drinking. Habitually he loses his cell phone and house keys. No longer driving since he is unable to recall where he parked the car. When his wife returns from work late into the evening, there is a standing altercation. Recently his wife called sick into work given Santiago knocked out her front tooth from repeated blows. Santiago terrorizes every single family member within the household. In thirty-plus years not once has his wife reported the domestic violence or any grievances instead she tends to her husband. Santiago has become adamant about not bathing. When he visits his mother, he speaks of how his family despises him while omitting his infractions. Santiago lives in a perpetual cycle of rage, slowly disintegrating as he desperately tries to hold on.

Santiago was the firstborn of eight children to an extremely toxic mother. She debased, beat, terrorized, and ridiculed her sons daily. Santiago grew up to be just as narcissistic as his mother. Like his mother, by the age of eighteen, Santiago had three children, born in the same year, by three different women. He has eleven children with seven different women, while solely financially providing for his youngest two children. Every other child never received any monetary or emotional support. His older children envied the youngest two, given they are the ones he had a vested interest in. Fiscally, Santiago did very well for himself however, he began to lose his fortune due to the drinking. Indiscretions were rampant in the marriage. Physical abuse of his wife was a staple and how he maintained total control. Santiago’s affaire with the bottle superseded all things. When he tired of running the streets and returned home, no one was spared of his vitriolic nature. The years of abuse manifested in excessive weight gain in his wife. She had gastric bypass surgery as a means of reinventing herself. While home recovering from the surgery, Santiago beats her, fearing she may finally leave. His youngest daughter is effortlessly striking, coquette. As she walks down the street, there is no shortage, in the awe of men. Habitually, Valentina was debased, ridiculed, and terrorized by the man responsible for loving and protecting her. No wonder, She lacks any motivation beyond being a kept woman even if it means grave degradation. Her lifestyle may seem foreign to many although this is how Valentina was groomed. Santiago projected the hollowness he felt within onto his daughter and she believed him.

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