Heck, I didn't even think she KNEW Benjamin Franklin, much less having a close friendship!
Posted on 09/09/2014 7:45:10 AM PDT by tobyhill
One day after Ray Rice was cut loose from the Baltimore Ravens following the release of a video showing him striking and knocking out his then-fiancee, his wife is defending her husband and blasting the media for the pain caused to her family.
In an Instagram post apparently written by Janay Rice, she said she felt like she was "mourning the death of my closest friend."
"I woke up this morning, feeling like I had a horrible nightmare, feeling like I'm mourning the death of my closest friend," Janay Rice wrote in the post. "But to have to accept the fact that it's reality is a nightmare itself. No one know the pain that the media & unwanted options from the public has caused my family. To make us relive a moment in our lives that we regret everyday is a horrible thing.
"To take something away from the man I love that he has worked his ass off for all his life just to gain ratings is horrific. THIS IS OUR LIFE! What don't you all get. If your intentions were to hurt us, embarrass us, make us feel alone, take all happines away, you've succeeded on so many levels. Just know you've succeeded on so many levels. Just know we will continue to grow & show the world what real love is! Ravensnation we love you!"
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I know I will get flamed so let me do the obligatory caveat, it was brutal for him to hit her. That said, she went after him aggressively several times prior to his attack, which is hardly a domestic abuse scenario. Obviously they have issues but is it really up to an employer to decide? It sets a dangerous precedent. Imagine being at a company party, a couple gets into a heated argument, the next morning the wife has a black eye......husband without a job.
The interest on $25 million should keep these two idiots going forward for a normal lifetime.
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I guess we should be sympathetic (not).
Her odd statements are probably just the concussion talking.
am certain is ... don’t blame him or me ... blame someone else and send he and I the money ... she marries the guy after he beat her in that awful manner ... then says ... he doesn’t deserve punishment. Has to be a money thing ... (shrug) ... only thing making sense. Bet the media will soon be there to blame someone else as is beginning and underway. The media will help them by blaming the commissioner. Now the commissioner made a mistake, I’ll agree but why blame someone else after the ruling has been made to be indefinite suspension. Nobody is safe when Congress and the media is hold court. Even if that someone was not in the elevator they are not safe. Court rooms, judges, lawyers, the perps, the victims ... a planned exercise?
I don’t know her specific situation, but it isn’t always for such a shallow reason. I know because I’ve been there. It’s been more than 20 years ago but my hands are starting to shake as I type this.
Most men like this are extremely charming and kind and thoughtful. In the beginning. They don’t start out being abusive and it happens so gradually!
One of the first things they do is isolate you. That’s for two reasons, to make it easier to hide the abuse and also to change and mold your perceptions of yourself, the abuser and the relationship. Being isolated, you have no one offering a positive view of yourself. All you have are the abusers negative views of you and over time, you start to believe it. “You’re too fat/skinny/ugly/useless/worthless.” “You’re lucky I’m still here because no one else would have you.” “If you were more like so-and-so, I’d treat you better.” “I only treat you like you deserve to be treated.”
I was so very lucky to have a best friend who refused to be chased off. When begged him not to come around anymore because I always ended up paying for his presence in my life, he said he was sorry about that but pointed out that everyone else being chased off hadn’t made my husband any less abusive. He saved my life.
You spend all your time trying to find the right combination to bring back the charming, thoughtful, kind, caring person you fell in love with. You think this behaviour is some kind of anomaly and if you just do and say the right things, it will be like it was at the beginning. You can’t fathom that THAT was the anomaly! They prey on the naive and gullible (usually the young) who will believe all their BS. I was 16 when I met him and had no idea people like him existed.
Thanks to my best friend, I got up the courage to leave him. He had told me for years I could never make it without him and, like everything else, I believed it but I did it anyway.
I just ask that you try to be less condescending. I know it’s a world most men can’t begin to understand. Most men have never had to be afraid. Most men have never had someone look them in the eye and say, “I will kill you if you leave me.” And mean every word of it.
I know this is long and won’t blame you if you don’t read it but I needed to say it.
Go on your rant sweetly. Defend your money making machine.
Marrying somone that cold cocked you make you dumb as a rock or a calculating wench. Every woman or man abused
by somone they love ought to tell you to shut up.
That’s why I always say, if you gave black people Reparations, they money would wind up right back from where it came from within a few months as they splurge on stuff.
oh well, can’t please everyone ... me? What money? Have little to none ... of a thing called money and I never type to make money. Am too stupid.
Well, the money died and she did say she feels like she’s lost her best friend so I think mourning is appropriate here.
Sweet Enough? LOL
I never type to make money.
...I don’t know about that...but apparently you never type to make sense either...
Heck, I didn't even think she KNEW Benjamin Franklin, much less having a close friendship!
LOL ... yep, accused of that by many. I love my enemies.
mmmmm ... vacation time?
I know this is awfully harsh, but if she doesn’t care, why should anybody else?
I want to validate your story and your courage to tell it. Mine is very similar. Thankfully, I am in a much better place, now, as well. You have thoroughly detailed how these types of things can develop and how these predators operate. Thank you for sharing.
Yes, but Willy never hit Hitlery, literally or in the Laz sense of the word "hit." Willy reserved his hits in both senses of the word for his bimbos and rape victims.
You don't think there's a possibility that he intimidated her into "not caring"?
Big nightmare, she married the wife-beater for a promise of money and now that will dry up. How long before she’s gone....
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