Anthony, glad you shared this. Effective and makes perfect sense to smack her in the face and knock her out. Not saying this with any sarcasm either, as I'm dead serious. My God, she thought she was going to make you do something you didn't want to do and she physically assaulted you more than once and would have used you, if she had her way. Sick! I personally can't stand this type of sexual harrassment, highly triggered by it.

Sounds to me anthony, like this admission of bad shit belongs on her list, not yours. Call me twisted, but I really don't believe so. You did something I admire, you continued through all her BS to hold yourself in enough regard to protect yourself. And, if she gets slapped in the face, even knocked out in this process, well then good for you and for her. Perhaps, she's a hell'a'va lot less apt to pull the same shit again. You might have influenced, saving her life too. It might have been good luck on her behalf, bc who knows what.

I only wish that I knew in prior yrs. that it was really o.k. to do this. I call it self-preservation at it's best. I was so full of unwarrented guilt, and truly niaeve that I began to think what I thought was my rights were in fact not my rights. I never really made it into the big world, lived much of my life on the outside looking in, alone and isolated.

At times, but only at times, I was the type of person who was without a defense against non-stop sexual harrassment. The limited men I spoke of were members of AA. If my daughter grew up and told me she needed AA, I would seriously influence her not to go. She'd simply have to find another way to find sobriety. Brand new to AA and quite young, I once had an ugly ass' woman during the holding of the hands and prayer part of the meeting, look dead at me, stick her tongue out and move it in disgusting ways and say something disgusting.

Anthony, you having said, Guys are not always the abusers...just made out that way, ......and then sharing what you did, has opened my eyes some to things I just didn't know from my experience, as my experience is limited greatly. Thank you God!

Always wished I could have had an older brother to educate and inform me, step-in for me, and knock the shit out of someone that had it coming, when I didn't know how, male or female. Or, even a mother or sister that wouldn't have said and/or suggested anything other than, "Oh, who the hell do you think you're deluding yourself into imagining that you're worth anything more than us.....an object. Get it, learn it, and them come join us, you're welcome."

Now, I've just opened the doors to further discussion elsewhere.

Anyhow, anthony, you only hit a woman once, and as I see it, it shouldn't even count as once. And, you were effective in self-preservation, good for you and I'm glad she's stayed far away from you.