Once the open wounds have healed, I would recommend Arnica. Cream or even the pellets; it helps with healing. Works REALLY well on bruises, so get it on your leg asap.
I'm so glad you didn't respond. The answer to that question is truly impossible. Most people will just lie. Or if they don't lie, it's either bewildering or devastating. I'm pretty sure that my dad still "loved" my mom while he was doing what he was doing. It's just that the definition of "love" isn't what anyone should think of as love. Something gets twisted somewhere in some peoples' minds, and it's impossible for others to really comprehend. So ultimately the answer is useless, and I'm so glad you didn't ask.
And...what you said at the end there, "I know he would've sucked me back in and I would've ultimately dropped the charges"....that's another reason "intimate terrorism" (the newer word for "domestic violence", according to an old friend who works to fight it) gets a lower attention rate from the police. Because so many people DO go back and DO drop the charges. And then the more people that do that, the more cynical the police get, and the more likely they are to assume that the *next* person will drop the charges as well.
I'm glad that you know yourself and know what to do to keep that from happening.
My mom has since passed away, but to the end if she heard this one particular song she would shudder in horror, because it was the song my dad would play as he sweet talked her back into his life. He wouldn't be there to do that IF the cops had ever actually arrested him, of course (she would NOT have dropped the charges), but they never did, so he was around to do that.
Good for you.
I also wanted to mention that while some are focusing on "she saved for that long and ended up with 1K", but that's not true, is it? Haven't you said something about the trip having ALREADY cost 5K? So you saved for that long and got 6K. Which is pretty darned good.