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My husband was arrested last year for SA'ing me, the trial is set for June. I've been waiting on the prosecutor to give me his sentencing guidelines, just so I could have some ballpark of what he could be facing. I was thinking like 15-20 years.

These are the actual guidelines:

Low end – 56 years 2 months

High end – 89 years 10 months

Midpoint – 74 years 10 months

I was in shock when I saw them. I had no idea he could be looking at that much time. Even on the low end that would basically be the rest of his life. I don't know how to feel. I reported him because I didn't want him to hurt anyone else, but I don't know if I would have knowing he could literally be in prison the rest of his life. It's really hard not to feel guilty, like I'm stealing his life from him.

Edit: someone suggested I add that he has a prior conviction for rape already, which explains the long sentence guidelines

So many times I go on AITA or similar subs, and a girl shares screenshots of their chats, and she looks like she actually has read a book or ten, but the man types like an idiot. Just abbreviations,

I sometimes look at ages and wonder how on earth an adult woman, often well past her mid-twenties, who communicates decently well and shares well-reasoned thoughts, stays with someone who can’t type one word correctly and has a vocabulary that would make a primary schooler judge him.

I’m sharing because I just saw it yet again, and it pissed me off yet again, and I can’t throw a dictionary at someone over the screen. And >80% of the time it’s a post where the guy is either an asshole, a moron, or a combination of both. Or doesn’t care and shows it. And then the girlfriend comes to Reddit to ask if she’s in the wrong.