Janet, I would love to hire Lorena Bobbit right now... or Dr Phil.
Katie has gone BACK to Josh and claims she trusts him not to do it again and that they're planning a wonderful long term life together. Her and I had a long talk tonight and I totally told her how I feel about it and how scared I am for her... and she informed me it's her decision to make and she's HAPPY with him.
If that's happy I'm blind.
Then later tonight Doug (who just moved out of here 6 weeks ago) called me. He said he'd talked with Katie last night and she told him a secret that I'm not supposed to know. Josh had told her if she leaves him he will make sure no other man gets near her... That he will "see to it".
So now I suspect she's afraid to leave and afraid that if Greg and I know we will try to force her to get out. Doug had offered her to move in with him for a while to get away and decide what she wants to do, and she said Josh would never allow it. I haven't told anyone else this... really don't even know where to start... if she won't admit it to me, it's hard to know how to approach it. I have to be careful not to alienate her or she's gonna feel like she has NO where to turn.
I am truly scared for her right now. She's in too deep and needs to get out. But that can't happen if she's running scared.
I plan to contact my other dd as she and Katie are pretty close and see if she can try to talk to her. She lives in Minnesota and Josh isn't allowed out of Wisconsin... so if she could get Katie to stay with her for a bit (Which she has offered her several times) if he so much as showed up there he could be arrested for violating parole. Also, my oldest has worked in psych hospitals as a nurse so knows a lot of self defense techniques that can pin and restrain a man much larger and more powerful than herself.
At least she'd be safer there.
Please say a prayer for her... she's gonna need all the help she can get.