Dianne, I'm sad to hear of the 70 year old woman, imagine all the years, and it is shameful that a man of that age continues to batter.

When I first encounted the abuse of my ex-husband we lived in upstate NY in 1994. I met a lovely lady in her late 60s who was planning on leaving her husband (retired Navy) b/c he was physically, mentally, verbally and sexually abusive. She said the later was the worst b/c she was not the youth she once was, yet very stricking to look at (kind of like Kathryn Hepburn). He would become very jeolous if other men (regardless of age) looked at her. And I thought, gosh she is my grandmothers age, who would want to hurt my (or anyones for that matter) grandmother? Yet, sadly, it does occur.