”Ed continued to sit next to her even as she turned so that her back was facing him. With a very quiet voice, he said, “You can run, but you can�...t hide. He’ll keep it up until one day either you or he will be dead.”“I have kids!” cried the woman as she considered the impossibility of her situation. Life was not like in the movies she had watched before getting married. Men didn’t chase after women with roses and sweet words, but forced them into submission with cruel words and closed fists.A. They were getting pretty relaxed with each other. Her was about ten years older, divorced a couple of years with no kids, worked from home part of the time, and was well-read.When a coworker gave Nancy two concert tickets they couldn’t use, she asked Dave if he’d like to go with her. He sprang for dinner and on the way back after the concert Nancy mused, “Back when I had a boyfriend I’d look forward to some time in bed with him after something like this. But I guess it wouldn’t be appropriate. So it's not like I'm desperate to get laid. Especially not with a girl who's taken."Gwen giggled and then glanced sidelong at me. "What about a girl who isn't taken?"There was a definite innuendo in Gwen's voice, and I looked over at her curiously. "Thought you were giving Rick another chance."She sighed and exhaled a big puff that steamed in the cold December air. "I DID give Rick another chance. But the same problems I had with him when we were dating are still there."I winced. "Ooh. Still. They relate to their friends and their enemies and their women in a much more primitive fashion than we have grown used to. They've sort of gone back to the basics."When we got back to the house I sent her up to take a shower. I poured myself a couple of shots of Evan Williams and sat down to watch my shows. I was getting behind on "Countdown" and "The Daily Show" and a few others. I don't know how I ever survived before they invented DVR!Bev came back down halfway through Olbermann's show and.