My wife and I got in a terrible argument. I didn’t want to be any part of it so I tried to leave. She physically blocked my exit by pushing me and grabbing my clothes. We ended up wrestling and I pinned her and screamed for her to keep her hands off of me.
The next morning, she went to my parents’ house and told them god knows what. They convinced her to put the restraining order against me.
On the phone with my mother, after my wife left, she told me that if I went to AA and brought back my first chip that my dad would drop the restraining order. Wait, what!? I nearly shat myself. You what? Who? My dad?? Whaaaaat?? They had apparently devised this whole scheme of putting the TPO on me so that they could force me to change somehow… but they weren’t clear on how I should change at all. They’d never mentioned this before.
So, I figure okay, I’ll go to AA. I went and brought back my first chip. I called my mom and told her I’d done what she asked. She said they’d be moving forward with the plan anyway. I asked why and my mother could only say “It’s important to still go to the hearing”. Heh!?
I do go through periods where I drink too much… but I think that maybe someone could have mentioned this without going to a public forum and declaring that I’d attacked my wife and then threatened her life. It was so humiliating.