Man abusing wife

He was very typical of a lot of men of that time who thought they went out and worked, and women were to there to keep house and wait on them hand and foot. My mother-in-law in Australia would have to stand to one side of her husband at the table after serving his meal, ready to take his plate away and bring the next course. I have seen him throw a freshly cooked dinner on the floor because she had not cooked it to his satisfaction, and give a filet steak to the cat, then she would have to cook him something else. He would speak about her as if she was not there, usually disparagingly. I think Bob had a deep underlying inadequacy and was terrified of her gaining her independence. He desperately needed to be in control. Like most bullies, he needed a compliant victim.

@astockton_uk...I'm likin' the way you THINK, boss !!! :)?

Well, we do live in hope!

Though, I'm not sure at this point which is worse and makes me want to bury him in an ant hill:

The way he treats Pat or the way he repeatedly and arrogantly calls himself a "veteran" when talking to real fighting men, equating his leg and arm injury to their true combat injuries.

By his own admission, he got his own injury...standing about! And he was well out of the danger, too, by his own admission--he said the shell that fell was a mistake and well off target, so we can read into that that he was playing it pretty safe as journalist.

I do hope against hope (though this is Eastenders Meets Rationing, so soapy rules) that Pat won't do something desperate and swing for it.

But given the rules of soap drama writing of this nature, she probably will end up in the gallows. Or her Czech lover will, for doing the deed on her behalf out of love for her.

It isn't going to end well.

I would SOOOO ENJOY sticking a pointed poisoned pilchard sideways up his flat pale pasty British arse so far he'd choke on the bones!!! Hehehehehehehe!!! What a wimpy,watered-down weak little weaselly whinging wuss!!! :)?