In civilian life it was a different story. He was an angry, unhappy and frustrated man who was not able to control his emotions or his hands. As a child I witnessed his repeated violence against my mother, and the terror and misery he caused was such that, if I felt I could have succeeded, I would have killed him. If my mother had attempted it, I would have held him down. For those who struggle to comprehend these feelings in a child, imagine living in an environment of emotional unpredictability, danger and humiliation week after week, year after year, from the age of seven. My childish instinct was to protect my mother, but the man hurting her was my father, whom I respected, admired and feared.
Stewart even describes in very chilling detail his own acts to stand in-between his father and mother during these perilous times, and the effect it had on his life forever after that.
Marriage is meant to promote marriage equality first and foremost the equal value of the rights and responsibilities of the man, woman, and child they potentially have together. I relate to Patrick Stewart's story, and that is the deepest core of my support for it.
So now I have to ask, what effect does understanding marriage equality as between the man, and the woman, for the sake of the child, have on your marriage?
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