A Windsor man is sharing his alleged experience with intimate partner violence, calling for more support for male victims.
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Kent Burge claims it all started on the day of his wedding.
“She [my wife] hit me,” said Burge. “It wasn’t hard, but it surprised me. It shocked me.”
“I just chalked it up to nervousness and stress, a big event, big decisions, big responsibility.”
However, Burge said it didn’t stop there.
“It got to the point where I was held at knifepoint suddenly and I looked deeply in her eyes,” he said. “We couldn’t have been any more than a foot away from each other. There was a blackness to her eyes that I had not seen before.”
“There was this emotional, psychological and physical shift in her approach to me that involved grabbing a knife off the kitchen counter and then actually holding the …