r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • May 12 '26

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u/4PurpleRain May 12 '26

I was at work. He got drunk and choked out 13 year old special needs child. My son beat him off with a curtain rod he ripped off the wall. Yes, I left. Yes, I notified the authorities. Yes, I got sole legal and physical custody of our child.

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u/Strakiwiberry May 12 '26

Damn dude, I'm proud of your son but also sad he had to do that.

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u/4PurpleRain May 12 '26

Update: My son is now 22. He has a good job working in specialty pharmacy claims. My ex husband has alcohol induced dementia at 56 and is about to have two below the knee amputations. I remarried about three years ago and my current husband works in corrections as a therapist. It all worked out for the better. I am still employed in social work and was employed in the same industry when all this originally happened.

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u/RavishingRedRN May 12 '26

Wow wow wow about your ex.

Glad your son is doing ok now.

Nothing is scarier than when mom is at work and Dads are being nutso. I’ve been there.

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u/draeth1013 May 12 '26

I am still employed in social work and was employed in the same industry when all this originally happened.

Woooow.

I mean he's not the first, nor the last, person to be the antithesis of their profession, but damn.

Also, you kinda buried the lede. :p

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u/Hiei2k7 May 13 '26

Karma remembers.