I know a woman, here is her story-
I married a guy I met online, it was all a bit rushed. I am from the UK and he's American, I moved out there and after a couple of months he was very verbally abusive and he got physical with me, so I left and went to stay with a friend. Of course he begged me back the whole week and I thought since I married him, I would give him another chance, so I did and it was fine for a while and then the abuse started again, he'd yell, call me all the names of the day and throw things, he terrified me. I found out I was pregnant, it wasn't planned of course, I would never want to bring a child into an unstable marriage. I knew before I married him, I shouldn't have done it....now I can see why warning bells were going off...of course I didn't listen to them. Anyway to cut a long story short, I came home with him to see my family and he had to go back, but I decided to stay and have the baby here for fear things would get worse and I would be stuck there once baby born there and is automatically an American Citizen....I told him he needs counselling before I would consider going back, of course he's not happy. I just don't trust the whole thing...I have never trusted his character, the funny thing is he confesses to be a christian, as I am, and my pastor told me if he truly repents over this-that I have no grounds for divorce. Thing is he so-called repented the last time and continued to be that way!!!