I’m pretty sure I heard my neighbour beating his GF. I could hear him yelling and her screaming “stop” and “get off me”. I called the police but I felt really guilty about it because I don’t want to be seen as a “Karen”.
My fiancé said, “well we don’t know for sure if he was hitting her”. He made me feel even worse. I hate him right now.
My neighbours fighting triggered my PTSD. My mother was a victim of domestic violence, and I watched her getting brutally beaten up when I was only five years old. There was one occasion where my mother was screaming for help and her boyfriend placed a knife to her head and threatened to chop off her head if we called the police.
I wish I was like everyone else and I could just mind my own business, But I couldn’t live with myself if he killed her or put her in a hospital. I know it’s not my job to save everyone but stuff like this bothers me.
Here are what netizens think:
You shouldn’t beat yourself up over something like that. It’s better safe than sorry. If you were able to hear all that – more than likely you were in the right to get involved.
You may have saved her life. Even if you didn’t, it’s better to be wrong in that situation than right and she ends up with a concussion, at the very least.
Don’t feel bad about calling the police or being a “Karen.” A Karen intervenes for her own ego, not to help others. You did the right thing for your neighbour, even if you misinterpreted what you heard.
As someone who was once a victim of my ex and no one called, I think you did the right thing. The Police will intervene and they actually did help me once they were involved