I think my husband has become verbally abusive to me,too. Last week, he called me a mother fu##er. He calls me a ***** regularly. I tell him not to call me that and he says, the don't be one. I thought he was a kind man when I met him. I am too passive. I take it. I usually don't stand up for myself. I just say how dare you call me that. And that doesn't get me anywhere.