Physical Abuse

I wanted to tell you about the day that my father, Mike Rinder, attacked my mom—just a short part of it—but it’ll give a very clear idea of exactly what I saw and the damage that he caused to her. So it was a hot summer day, we were down in Florida—we, being my mom and my uncle (Mike's brother) who flew in from Australia. And we were there, and we were hopeful for reconciling with Mike Rinder and coming to an end of his attacks on our family.

We were perfectly happy with him going and living his life and moving on and leaving us alone. Well, it absolutely didn’t go that way. It was faster than I could have imagined—upon approaching Mike Rinder—next thing you know, my mom's being abused by him and being attacked by him. And his arms are on her and he’s screaming in rage—and, I mean, profanities you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy. And spittle coming out of his mouth and a rage, that was so violent, it was scary. And I can tell you, as a daughter, you never expect that. And you never expect that to be your father, Mike Rinder, on your mom. I mean, can you imagine that? I literally couldn't—it was surreal. It was scary. I was scared for my life. I was scared for my mom's life.

This rage that he was in—and rage makes a man very dangerous—this rage that he was in, in this domestic violence attack, resulted in her having a broken shoulder, gouged flesh, blood everywhere on the scene when it was happening. And all sorts of other medical ramifications as a result of the flesh wound and infection and, you know, all sorts of things. That all resulted from that rage. And he, Mike Rinder, wouldn’t let go. And my mom’s yelling, “Let go, let go.’’ And she will tell you, she heard her bones cracking. She heard it happening. And yes, he broke her shoulder that day in that rage.

So what am I supposed to do? I’m the daughter. I’ve just witnessed and experienced, now, my mom having been damaged by my father, Mike Rinder—damaged for life. Am I supposed to stand here and not say anything? Let him get away with it? Let him be supported by whoever—all the people that don’t care? No. That is not going to happen. I will not stand by while my mother is in pain every single day of her life and Mike Rinder continues to walk free with no responsibility. And, on top of it, shame the victim and shame my mom and tease her and lie about her and lie about my family. No. I will not do it.

And that’s why I have justice4mom.

That being said, your support is very appreciated. I want to thank you, every one of you, my supporters that have been supporting me for some years now. For all of that support, for every little thing that you do, for the encouragement, for you going out and doing something, for taking a stand against domestic violence.

Anything and everything that you can do—not only to stop my father, Mike Rinder, the abuser—but any abuser—I appreciate, and I want to thank you for that. It’s so appreciated, I cannot tell you enough.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Taryn

Justice4mom

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Take the time this year to reach out to all of those you love!

2020 enforced distance to stay safe, make sure that gap is filled with love and care. Valentine’s Day is a day of love, not hate.

Something I strongly urge others to do is to show love and respect to their children and family. Don’t let anything sway you. Keep true to that love. And definitely don’t let love get replaced by violence and hatred.

Domestic violence and abuse are exactly that: love replaced by violence and hate.

My father, Mike Rinder, replaces love for hate and violence all the time now. He domestically abused the woman who bore two of his children – she should be loved as a woman, not beat. He harasses, teases, lies, insults, and spreads hate about his two eldest children, two children who should be getting love from their father—not his constant belittlement and spite.

I urge my father, Mike Rinder, to show some respect and love to those in his family he harmed physically, those he deserted and those he harasses. How? By ceasing his torment. By at least not spreading hate and not harassing the family he harmed, deserted and lies about publicly.

Make this Valentine’s Day a day to put aside hate and show some love. Do something big or small to let someone know you care about them, that you love them. I will be doing that and especially for my mom who deserves the love.

Taryn

Justice4mom

A Family Picture by the Daughter of a Domestic Violence Perpetrator

I wanted to paint a picture for you today of what I see or what comes to mind when I think of my father, Mike Rinder.

He deserted our family without a word. He then harassed my brother and did so, knowing that he was diagnosed with cancer and told he had a few years to live. And gave him no support during that time.

Mike Rinder uses any platform that he has to tell lies about my family, to really put us down and say really rude, despicable, atrocious, disgusting things about us that aren’t even true—on TV, on podcasts, on whatever media outlet that he has—he’ll say it and get other people to say it. People who have no idea of the truth, only hearsay from him.

Worst of all, Mike Rinder physically attacked my mother and damaged her to such an extreme that she will never, ever recover for the rest of her life. And she's going to be and is in pain every single day of her life. And this was a woman that he was married to for decades and had—was the mother of two of his children, my brother and I.

And not only was Mike Rinder standing there in a rage, attacking my mother—which is crazy enough—but he did it in front of his daughter, which was myself, and his brother and other witnesses. The guy is not right in head.

Then Mike Rinder spins his tales and uses it for his own advantage. And he uses it to gain support and continue to harass us and to augment his harassment by getting other people that know nothing about us, they don't know me from Joe on the street. They know nothing about me. They know nothing about my family. But he'll get them to spread lies about us and to harass us. And so this paints a bit of a picture of a man who's so degraded, morally, that he’s willing to do that. And he likes doing it. And continues to do it. And gets other people to do it.

A man like Mike Rinder with that character of hating people, harassing his family, harming people, abusing his wife, should not be supported.

And that’s my message and that’s my justice4mom.

If you stood in my shoes and if you were the daughter of a man who did that to people, who did that your mom, who did that to you. Imagine you are the daughter of that person. Well, now you see exactly why I have justice4mom. Because after he attacked my mom and domestically abused her—that was enough. Enough’s enough. And so I had to have a voice.

And so I made a voice for myself and I'm using it to shed light on the truth about Mike Rinder and to shed light about the type of man that he is and his characteristic—characteristics and the things that he does and the way that he is going to treat people and does treat people so that he can stop being supported.

I will continue to do my videos every single week and I will continue to shed light on the truth about Mike Rinder and his abuse of my mother until I get justice for my mom.

I’m definitely going to do everything in my power and using whatever voice that I have to—to really make sure that people know about Mike Rinder and the type of man that he is. And also to help other people that might be domestically abused and give them a voice as best I can.

And—but very, very definitely to get the support of Mike Rinder to stop.

That’s my goal: justice for my mom.

Taryn

2021—the year to end

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