My husband is not a violent man by nature, but that rule doesn’t apply when it comes to protecting me. When we were married barely a year, he smashed a man’s nose at a bar for getting fresh with me, and he ended up spending two months in prison for assault. It was a miserable two months for him—something he’s not eager to ever repeat—but he still means business right now. He would still break every bone in Mitch’s body if he did anything to truly hurt me.