Putting things into perspective....

We have a young man working for us who is just married and has an infant son. His home life in the past has been, shall we say, volatile. He has had his share of run ins with the law, but seems to be really getting his life in order. I have high hopes for him, that he will keep to the straight and narrow, and let his talent come through and be what God meant him to be.

Today, he came in to work and told my father that he and his wife got into an argument. He said that he told his wife that he was not going to argue with her and walked out of the house. He wound up walking all the way across town to his mothers house.

When he cooled off, he called his wife to tell her where he was. She told him that she needed money for the baby to buy diapers etc. Since she had the car, she came to him, and he gave her $100. When he went back home, he walked into a disaster.

She had literally wrecked the apartment. She broke every piece of china. Every mirror. She pulled a 30” TV off the stand and broke it. She broke all of his CDs. She broke all of his tapes. When there was nothing left in the apartment to break, she took a hammer to his car. Then she took his child and went two states away.

He is devastated. I don’t have the foggiest idea what I can do to help him.

She will probably get away with it.

Troubador