Once upon a secretary wrote:

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I'd be among he most disappointed, Joe, if you hit her.  I pray to God that is not the case.  A man your size should never lay a hand on any woman no matter what she's done to provoke it, assuming she did anything to provoke something from you. 

So, where are you putting your head down?  Inquiring minds want to know.  

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          I've never laid a hand on her. She knows better than to think or infer that I would. I have 100 pounds on her. However, there is some history to this nonsense. A month or so ago, she showed up at 819 Sunset St., unannounced, and with no one home she entered the house, my private space, the same house she had abandoned 21 months ago. She was warned repeatedly to stop just showing up unannounced. I had just bought a new Lenovo computer, as the old units kicked. It was the only computer I had and it had ALL of my legal files on it, among thousands of other scanned in docs and pics. When she left, she took my computer with her. She didn't leave a note or advise me otherwise that she took it, so when I came home to a missing computer my heart sank. Your's would, too. I had a ton of legal work to do, and now my computer was stolen. I was totally screwed.

So, I called the police and Detective Gilroy came out. We talked and he concluded Joanne stole it, since an expensive camera and several other expensive things weren't touched. He said he'd file his report and proceed to find her, but I then told him to let it go. I advised him that if she's charged, it'll violate her bail condition and she'll be put in jail. He understood and made me sign a waiver of no-prosecution against her. I sent her a text giving her a date certain to return it, which she didn't comply with.

Instead, a few days later, she again showed up unannounced. She had the computer with her, but she also brought a handyman with her to change all the locks on the hosue and garage to lock me out of my own home.  I was tipped off and when I got there she had changed all house locks and was in the process of locking me out of the garage where I keep my tools, which I need every day for work.  That's when the shyt hit the fan.  Was I pissed? You bet. That's called invasion of privacy and criminal trespass. We were face to face as I demanded she remove the locks. She refused. I gave the handyman an earful and he was happy to get going. She called the police. Several cars showed up sirens glaring and when the smoke cleared the cops told her she cannot lock me out of the house or garage since I am still husband and have lived there for 16 years.

She was ordered to open the house by the cops. She refused.  The cops then instructed me to do whatever I had to do to get in, so I broke a window and removed all the locks, to which only she had keys. She lied to the cops, saying I was her ex-husband. She also told the cops I shoved her, another lie. My son was there and witnessed it all. She then said she was going for a PFA as to immediately evict me, but instead, she went to a lawyer's office and surrendered the keys for me to pick up, explaing how sorry she was for her conduct. The lawyer will be at the hearing.

On this past Monday, she again showed up unannounced and just walked right into the house as I was working on my computer and Stephanie Tarapchak was resting in my bedroom. She brazenly came to my office and asked why Stephanie was in my bed, to which I said it was none of her business and demanded she leave. She refused. She stayed and argued for half an hour over who owns he silverware, etc. I then agreed to be at the house the next day for 2ish to go through the contents and label what was hers and what was mine, but instead of her showing up, two deputies showed up with a PFA.

I can have her charged with criminal trespass, I'm sure.  I should have had her charged with stealing the computer, but this is what I get in appreciation for NOT arresting her, because that would have had her behind bars three weeks ago on a bail violation.  

Nice guy syndrome.  See where it gets ya'.