After Roderick verbally abused her, calling her degrading names and saying she was "only good for laying on my back," Speaker A refused his marriage proposal. The conversation explores the tension between having faith in a partner and recognizing when to set boundaries against abuse.
Ain't no relationship if you don't have trust and faith.
Do you have trust and faith?
Yes, I do.
You trust him? Okay. Do you have faith that behavior will change? Do you trust her? Do you have faith that the behavior will change?
She gonna be right with that man.
All right. When Roderick proposed to you, why did you say no at first?
Who proposed first? When he proposed to me, I said no because he had cussed me out, called me a name. Who wanna be married to somebody that call a woman a bitch or a whore or a slut?
Agreed.
This man told me that I was only good for laying on my back.