Catherine Kieu's Ex Husband's Statement

father_figa · 2013-06-29T11:45:26+00:00

Utterly heartbreaking. I cried. I want to reach out and convince him that he can be happy again, that he can find a good woman who'll love him as he is... but I'm not sure I believe it myself.

father_figa · 2013-06-29T15:36:36+00:00

I have never forgotten the day this event took place. I am 40 yrs old and I know a lot about how horrible people can be. But this event has scarred me. It left a mark on my psyche that has never been erased. It touched me so deeply (I have no idea why) that I had to go to therapy for PTSD a few months after it occurred. I have never not had an intrusive thought about this event (generally upon first waking and at some point during the day) since it happened.

I have actively tried to avoid hearing about this story since it happened because it has had such a negative impact on my mind and being. It was like I never had true empathy until that day. Then all the jokes and degradation heaped on this man by so many women and some unthinking men (when ever I was unfortunate enough to hear about the story) would open new wounds in me.

There is so much that I feel about this but I dare not dwell on it. I feel a kindred spirit with this sub because I know a lot of people here feel deeply about this crime and will not judge me as harshly as some other open forums might. But I am not writing this for this sub. For once, I am writing here only for myself and a weight I have carried in my conscience and heart for these many years.

I have no concrete belief in a god or an afterlife. On the morning of July 12, 2011 when I first heard this story, I cried for the first time in years in my girlfriends lap. I cried like a baby and prayed (to whom I have no idea). I asked the universe to please be so kind as to give humanity an afterlife so that the victim of this crime could know freedom again.

Her prison sentence will not end this for him. I wish that it could. I only look forward to the day when I can finally die out of this world myself so that my being is no longer aware of this event. I wish I could undo this.

literallyschmiteraly · 2013-06-29T09:02:18+00:00

So sad.

ENTP · 2013-06-29T17:33:46+00:00

For as long as I am on this Earth, the rain will never stop.

But she is eligible for parole in 7 years.

tyciol · 2013-06-29T13:42:45+00:00

Yet the WWE still lists Sharon Osbourne as one of their "top" Raw guests hosts and had the gall to use her interview with Cena on "The Talk" even after she later made the offensive statements about both the Kieu situation AND the Bobbitt situation, a man who had been on Raw as a guest.

I do question the usefulness of asking rhetorical "if I had hit her, why would she want to stay with me?" questions though, since we do know abuse victims sometimes stay with abusers out of love, or, as he mentions early on, having nowhere else to go.

Stuff like "she has caused me to question my belief in god" is hardly a very good argument though. Many of us think that is a good thing. Though that's certainly not the way to go about trying to get someone to question, a belief founded on 'god will protect my penis from getting chopped off' isn't exactly too logical.

I mean heck consider his track record, would a god who encourages MGM as a 'covenant' give much of a shit about that?

Title	Catherine Kieu's Ex Husband's Statement
Author	AryoBarzan
Upvotes	12
Comments	6
Date	June 29, 2013 7:40 AM UTC (13 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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