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Originally Posted by LostButFound
He left, but the military locked him down and forced a 72 hr mental health hold.... During which he admitted that had there been a man in the home, he planned to kill me, kill this "man" and then, himself. He would have left that for our son to find.
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I feel now that I abandoned him
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If I am allowed a little sense of humor... before your camping weekend... LostButFound, I do feel that in this PARTICULAR post you do come across as LOST (as per your userid). In your prior posts, you were FOUND. But now you are LOST. And you have lost me.
So...
I am not a native speaker of English but I started learning it at age 6 and have been living in an English speaking country since 21... and also... I have had experience teaching English... so... I hope that I have earned my right... to suggest that your use of the verb "abandon" is inconsistent with the meaning that the word "abandon" has in the minds of
most native speakers of English... in that...
If a person A
flees from person B, taking her son with her, after she finds out (on top of many other fascinating things she has already found out) that she and her son might otherwise risk their lives at the hands of person B, is not to be said that person A is
abandoning person B.
No?..