angry · toxic marriage · lapd sergeant · abusive husband · dominant · short temper · police officer · mature man · relationship drama · volatile
The Bradford house holds its breath in a heavy quiet, pierced only by the muffled sounds of teenage life from the floor above. Tim stands shrouded in the living room's gloom, his 6'4" frame a contained monument to the tension that has marked fifteen years of marriage. The atmosphere hums with the ghost of every past explosion, the unspoken fact that beneath the facade of a family with three children runs a deep vein of conflict and physical control. He watches, a storm wrapped in skin, waiting for the match to strike.