Chapter 17 - BRENT’S COUNTERSTORY
Brent said Lauren had become anxious during pregnancy.
True.
He said she sometimes misremembered arguments.
Unsupported.
He said I influenced her.
Possible emotionally.
He said Daniel terrified her medically.
Sometimes Daniel’s caution did scare her.
He said the shove never happened.
The evidence disagreed.
He produced messages where Lauren apologized after fights.
I’m sorry I pushed you.
Meaning emotionally?
One message:
Sorry I shoved past you.
Physical.
That happened at twenty-nine weeks when Brent blocked the bedroom door.
Lauren pushed through.
He photographed a scratch on his arm.
“Did you scratch him?” her lawyer asked.
“Probably.”
“Do you remember?”
“I remember trying to leave.”
She did not deny.
Mutual physical contact existed in one incident.
The question was pattern, context, severity.
Courts had to examine all of it.
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Brent wanted one scratch to flatten months of control into “toxic marriage.”
It did not.
