Difficult decision

Describe a time when I had to make a difficult decision. What did you do? How did you choose?
My difficult decision was in the year 2000. I was living off and on with Brandon (kids dad), and was just not feeling anything for him anymore. He had been someone I had been with for nine years. I had two wonderfully handsome boys with him. I started my relationship with Brandon fresh out of high school. We had drug, alcohol, and lots of physical abuse. We lived in Marysville; Brandon was drunk ready to fight anyone who got in his way. I don't remember exactly what I had said, but Brandon for some reason just started hitting me in the head. A well built 17 year kid who had lived next door heard what was going on and busted down the door to stop Brandon. They started fighting, Brandon picked up a pipe wrench and hit the boy in the head with it. The cops came Brandon went to jail, and I thought it was over forever. Brandon got out of jail, and moved to the bay area and was doing well. I fell on hard times, the only thing I thought I could do was to live with Brandon once again. We lived in motels, hardly had anything to eat and the beating did not stop. One day Brandon was at work it was after an evening of chaos; that was when I decided to leave forever. I moved to Gridley with a friend that offered me a safe place to stay. I never returned. It felt good to get my children and I out of the abuse.