It was a week before starting kindergarten and we were moving in to our first house. I was less interested in moving boxes and more interested in playing with new friends. And right there across the street, with long curly hair and a sage green sun top, was a newly turned 5 year old girl, also about to start kindergarten. We spent the next 13 years experiencing the typical girl drama together, building a type of friendship that everyone in this world should be blessed to have. College and life has separated us physically but 40+ years later I can still show up on her doorstep with a bottle of wine and we can talk for hours. A sisterhood that will never end.

They were an amazingly awesome blended family. To the outside world, she had the life we all wanted to read about on Facebook. Abbe has a brother named Josh and coincidentally, her new step children share the same names; Abbe and Josh. How "made for each other" is that! They were seemingly a perfect match and the appearance of Abbe finally getting a partner she deserved. They bought a dream home, spent time at the beach, and raised 4 amazing kids together. Abbe is an amazing mother, wife, sister and friend. She is gifted with a fantastically funny wit and sense of humor that gathers an almost cult like following around her. A strait-A student, talented writer, and in perfect possession of the lost art of spelling, Abbe truly deserves to have the life she painted around her.

So why are you here on this page reading about me and my friend Abbe...

Just a week ago Abbe was struck by her husband, sending her to the hospital with a severe head and brain injury. While she was in the hospital, her husband was arrested in front of their children for 1 count of felony aggravated assault. In the time of Abbe's departure and prior to the arrest, her husband managed to clean her out. He closed bank accounts, changed passwords, and emptied out many of her personal items throughout the house. He also quickly posted bail and is now resting comfortably in his family's beach house. Abbe, who just dropped her daughter off for her first year of college a few weeks ago, is now left with self healing, caring for her son still at home, her many animals she has rescued over the years, and picking up the pieces of what's been left behind.

Being a victim of narcissistic spousal abuse, in my opinion, is perhaps the worst type of abuse someone can endure. In this case it's not just physical, it's mentally and emotionally damaging, perhaps for life. Google It! Abbe has a very long road of healing ahead of her. Her kids will need her support while she is trying to heal herself. She will have many legal battles to face as well and she moves on from this relationship but struggles to get back what is hers. Having just been released from the hospital, while still on anti-seizure medication, she is forced to return to work full time so that she can make some money. This is wrong! She should be at home recovering. She should be seeking counseling for her family and finding a good lawyer. She should not be burdened with being a single mom, worried about possibly losing her house and simply making ends meet.

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