I believe the sister…ONLY because Taylor/Shauna can be that disrespectful of a deceased person.  WHAT is to be gained but to garner attention for her pending book due out before xmas? He was barely in his grave before it came out.   As someone also stated, she was a spokesperson for abused women.  Someone in that position doesnt’ take beatings behind closed doors and if she did….what kind of role model was she?  I am totally aware of the cycle of abuse, the denial part when I say this. As a spokesperson, her understanding of abuse would be good if not excellent. 

She has to be the biggest hypocrite/liar going.  And if those are part of her character traits….lying to get attention to sell her book is old hat.  Its second nature.  People with a conscience and integrity would never ever be this disrespectful to dead person,much less make money on the situation of a death.  And yet there she is…  And ppl have this NEED to watch train wrecks, so they will buy it….sadly.   It’s a huge commentary on our society. 

All I can say is unless you have been in an abusive relationship you have know idea what you are talking about. Do we know was she a spokesperson before or after she met him, if it was before it is easy to try to help people in this situation and you think you have all the answers until it happens to you. If it was after, maybe it was her way of trying to get in with that particular type of group, to see what options she had, without actally having to acknowledge it. I was in an abusive relationship and before I was in it I never though I would ever put up with something like that, I thought I would never let anyone treat me disrespectful or put their hands on me. Well, they did and it wasnt because I was some meek person with no backbone. It doesn’t happen all at once and usually it doesn’t even start physical. Abusers slowly work on you, slowly have you qustioning yourself. Get you in situations to where you dont have very much control. It appears that they are just trying to make things easier on you and the family, when in essence they are creating a situation that gives you less control of your life. At first you usuaully starts wiht just bad arguments or even them losing control and throwing things but not putting their hands on you and you will think let him has his little fit and leave him alone and he will get over it and everything wil be better when he realizes how redicules he was behaving and he always woud act sorry an say he didn’t know why he was behaing that way and he woudn’t do it anymore. Then he would try to engage me more in the argument by trying to get me to blow up, as well, that way it could be my fault things got out of control. Then it might be that he would shove me out of his way or he would throw something at me. Then it became very physical. I was married for 8 years and the last year is when it became really physical and tht is when I got out. Mentally they slowly break you down and you make excuses to anyone and everyone when something happens because you know how the other 80% of the time they can seem so wonderful. I do not know why anyone would think that by her saying the daughter kicked her was how she received the blackeye and now that he is gone she is saying that he did it, could not possibly be the truth. Yu never admt it while they are their because what ma happenif you do could be ten times worse. I had many “accidents the last few years of my marriage that everyone did not figure out weren’t accidents until the last time when he beat me so bad that i had multiple fractures and I left him. His family would not buy it, many people who had known him all his life didn’t believe it, butI know I didn’t do it to myself and he did. So, you do not now why people do the things they do unles you have o walk in their shoes and you never know how you would handle it until you do.

Once Abused!