“Good! Now let me just apply light pressure so you feel the resistance—” Mark said, wrapping his arms around her in a loose bear hug.
“I told you to start with the ‘verbal de-escalation’ chapter,” Bill said, stepping over Mark to pour himself a whiskey. “But no. You had to go straight to elbows.” When Teaching Stepmom Self Defense Goes Wrong -...
This was the fatal error.
The lesson began in the living room, an area now cleared of coffee tables but still harboring a very expensive ceramic giraffe from their trip to Kenya. Mark, puffed with the confidence of two YouTube tutorials and a single Krav Maga seminar, started with the classics. “Good