...then you should read this article from today's Washington Post Magazine. It's a heart-wrenching real story about the real life impact of turning someone's life into a political issue to drum up votes in an election.
"I'm saying, 'I'm not a victim, and you're not going to treat me like this anymore! I'm taking my retirement money somewhere else,'" Tibby says, banging her fist on the dining room table one afternoon. But the women know there is another side to their decision to leave Virginia, a skittering away, a cautiousness that has clung all these years. And the story of where that caution comes from explains why they believe they need to go.Read the article, meet Barbara Kenny and Tibby Middleton, and decide for yourself when you think enough will be enough.
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It's unlikely they would have paid much attention to Virginia's Affirmation of Marriage Act if they hadn't been so worried that it could keep them apart during a medical emergency. The law infuriated them. "The way Virginia is treating us, what they are saying to us, I feel like it's being in an abusive house," Tibby says.
"I'm saying, let's get out of this house."
