I’m 6'1″ 220 lbs — and a victim of domestic abuse

At the start of 2020, I was engaged to a petite woman. We’d been together for three years and had a puppy together.

She was also abusive. When the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic forced lockdowns, I begged her to stop drinking, hoping it would calm the storm inside of her.

It worked for a couple of weeks.