I am a member of several women's abuse forums on Facebook, and I hear horror stories on there of abuse FAR worse than what I experience. I feel like what I experience is very mild in comparison.

And last night he ended up telling me he is going to buy that chair himself, the next time he gets paid. That made me very happy! He didn't even ask me to buy it or put it on my credit card. He simply said "in a couple weeks when I get paid again, I am going to buy it".