Jeez, Melissa, if you were male, it would be easier to understand a guy not wanting you hanging around his wife. But judging by your Mudcat name, which is a female's first name (and, likely, your own actual first or perhaps middle name), I don't imagine that you're male.

Me, I usually like to have my wife's girlfriends hanging around. Call me crazy, but that's how I usually feel...

Seriously, though, your characterization of the guy as an abuser is a pretty broad hint at what was going down. And the idea of you living in a tipi, in wintertime, tells us that you were not exactly in a conventional whitebread suburban living situation; not hardly. Further details are not really necessary.