IrishMist
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I have always fought back; but then, this is what was expected of me. Like Mistoferin says though, I know that I can do some serious damage. My training is for one thing and one thing only…to walk away alive, no exceptions. Of course, for me, it was always a bit different in that it was never about ‘playing’ for us. When he started beating on me, it was for real and he expected me to fight back. There were never any restraints of any kind, nor was there ever a feeling of ‘let him do this, he will not hurt me’ because it simply was not true in our case. Both of us lashed out as a way of keeping our more basic feelings of violence in check by using each other as punching bags. Despite being able to do some serious damage myself, I always knew that he was stronger, more physically able to restrain me, and he had a lot more training than I did. HE could have seriously done some horrible damage to me if he had seriously wanted to, and this I always knew. Now a days, it is a case of retaining all control because if I let go on someone who can not match me in defensive/offensive skills, I most likely will kill them or put them in the hospital. Unlike some, I choose instead to not ‘play’ with anyone else anymore because it simply is too hard to find someone who wants that kind of intensity in a relationship. I don’t fight back because I am allowed to; I fight back because I have to.
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