A Look at What to Do??

I was 18 years old, my parents had brought me a hairdressing salon so I could finish my hairdressing apprenticeship of which I had 12 months left, life was great, I had not a worry in the world and it was at this time I told myself I was never going to have children and never marry, over the next couple of weeks I gave away all the lovely things I had collected for when I did marry,  it was June of 1979, I met Dave through  my brothers girlfriend, he was everything I wasnt, he was 18 and living in his own flat, he had a car and he was what I call a pretty boy, he had the most beautiful long blonde hair, I had not seen hair so well taken care of!!, I found everything about him exciting and new because I was 18 and still lived at home with my parents and I had worked from the time I was 14, I heard from my brother that Dave thought I was too good for him and I would never go out with him, I told my brother to tell Dave to ask me out and we would see how it all went, Dave asked me out to a mutual friends place for a party, I agreed to go, Dave had one thing on his mind that night and that was to get me in the sack, he asked me several times through out the night to go for a drive with him and I kept saying later, later.  I felt I had not had enough alcohol to feel relaxed with him, then came the moment he asked me again and I said yes, we drove a short way from the house and made love , that night Dave told me I was moving in with him and we went back to his flat which was in the same street as my parents, Dave opened the door and told me to wait in the loungeroom he had to check something, he went on into his bedroom and came out with a young female about 17 years old, she was quite attractive and Dave was telling her to get in with her mother in the next bedroom, at this moment  I wanted to run out the door but something kept me there.  I found out later that the girl was his ex and she was not meant to be in his bedroom, but in the bedroom with her mother next door.   Any way Dave and I were married 6 weeks later, from the day we married in 1979 Dave put me on a pedestal and made me feel special, he would do anything for me, he would cook, clean and he kept an immaculate flat, this was strange to me in itself because my mother had done all the household chores along with us 5 children and dad worked all week, my parents had an instant dislike for Dave because they felt he was not good enough for me, well in the first week I held a 22 rifle at his head and I was going to shoot him because he hit me because I wanted to go out and he didnt want me to!!..you see before I met Dave I used to be out at every opportunity because I loved the pub scene and the atmosphere but Dave didnt, I suppose I should have seen the early warning signs but I was blinded by what I thought was love!! Daves family consisted of his mother 2 half brothers and a half sister who had an intellectual dissability , Daves mother was 4 slices short of a loaf as were his 2 half brothers.... like looking back on it now why in gods name didnt I see the obvious right there in front of me, his family right back to the great grandparents were mental cases!!!! But no I thought Dave was obviously the only sane one amongst them....wrong!!!! to be continued......