My letter to my abuser's wife in The Road Ahead

Complimentary Trigger Warning.

Hello. I’m Andrew, C and J’s big brother. I’m writing to let you know who you’re married to. This is difficult for me to bring up, but everyone should know the truth about Larry. You may already know that he’s abusive. Growing up, I watched him hit my mother over and over again. He would beat on me, with belts, his fists, and broke many kitchen wooden spoons with the force he hit me with. He also hit both girls, no one was spared his violence. Any perceived slight would incite his rage. He broke one of my video games because I beat him in it. Chores weren’t done to his liking? Abuse. I spent my entire childhood living in fear of him, fearing for my life. He picked me up from school when I had my first asthma attack and instead of taking me to the hospital or walk-in clinic, he angrily accused me of faking it to get out of school and took me home. I laid in my bed unable to breathe and when my mom finally got home, she found me blue lipped and suffocating. He never apologized. He was verbally and virulently violent as well. He called me fat over and over again, so I started starving myself and keeping my stomach sucked in any time I was around him, which was incredibly painful. I used to sleep in my closet because he would drunkenly stumble up the stairs, looking to beat on me at all hours of the night. He instilled thoughts and ideas that I was worthless, stupid, ugly, and that no one would ever love me. He did the same thing to the girls. We all lived in fear, all the time. I’ve been in therapy for years now and am finally working through all the disgusting and vile things he said and did to me. I was diagnosed with PTSD, due to my upbringing. I’ve attempted suicide six times because of the effect he had on me and my family. He ruined every holiday, every birthday, everything. He wasn’t allowed at my grandparents house because they saw and knew what a vile POS he is. I moved out of the house at the age of 16, because I couldn’t live with his abuse anymore. He’s also a pedophile. He should not be allowed around children unsupervised for any reason or any amount of time, including his own. I heard what he tried to do to C after her brain surgery, and that you covered it up. I’ve kept quiet for 30 years now, but me and my sisters deserve closure, and justice. I’m looking to press charges against him in the hopes of putting him away for the rest of his miserable life. He doesn’t deserve happiness, joy, or contentment. He deserves what they do to pedophiles in prison and to be locked up, because that’s what we do to monsters. He’s ruined the lives of those closest to him and continues his violent, disgusting behaviors even now. I’m not going away and not giving up until he pays for what he did to my family and I. I urge you to see him as he is and to get as far away as possible from him. Your life can only improve without him.