The Irony of my Brothers Relationship with my EX

Just a quick note on our show with Mel Robbins, we were rescheduled for this coming Tuesday. We also landed our first TV interview on the Gregory Mantell TV show and it looks like we are going to tape on September 9th.

Yesterday my kids left to spend the month in New York and as I mentioned before, they are spending half the month with my brother which does nothing more than tear at my soul. It is completely Ironic that my brother and Ex now have a cozy relationship. At the height of the physical beatings in New York which averaged about one a month, my ex actually knocked him out once in defense of me. You see, the last couple of years there I became so depressed by the constant stress over work and family relationships, I literally turned into a zombie.

The instance my ex attacked him was on a Monday after another 32 hour weekend by myself, and my brother was mad that something that happened in the press room and came into the office yelling and screaming about something, threw his coffee at me and started his ritual beating. When we were done he went about his business like nothing happened, in the mean time I called my father begging him to do something but as usual he did nothing, my ex called in the mean time, she knew something was wrong, she said “He did it again, didn’t he?” I couldn’t answer, she hung up the phone drove into the office, he confronted her right away and she punched him right in the mouth. I was working in the shop and did not even see it. For every story I tell about that chapter of my life, there are hundreds more I could tell. The sense of hopelessness was so overwhelming, that it manifested itself physically in my head with this thick fog that settled in that made functioning almost impossible. The days became so miserably long, I had nothing to look forward to other than getting home to bed and pulling the blanket over me and completely withdrawing.

I will tell more of this compelling story in my next blog.

With A Smile-Cory