the ponencia, to require the battered person to await an obvious deadly attack before she can defend her life would amount to sentencing her to murder by installment. In the case at bar, the cycle of violence perpetrated by the deceased, which culminated in the physical assaults and an attempt to shoot Marivic when she was 8 months pregnant, took the place of unlawful aggression, thus entitling her to a complete self defense even if there was no actual employment of violence by the deceased at the time of the killing. Marivic had every reason to believe that the deceased would kill her that night not only because the latter was verbally threatening to kill her while attempting to get a gun from the drawer, but more importantly because the deceased wounded her on the wrist with a bolo, and because of the deceased's previous conduct of threatening to cut her throat with a cutter which he kept in his wallet. Quoted hereunder are the relevant testimonies of Marivic A When I arrived home, he was already in his usual behavior. xxx xxx xxx A He was drunk again, he was yelling in his usual unruly behavior. xxx xxx xxx A He was nagging ... me at that time and I just ignore[d] him because I want to avoid trouble for fear that he will beat me again. Perhaps he was disappointed because I just ignore[d] hi[s] provocation and he switch off the light and I said to him, "why did you switch off the light when the children were there." At that time I was also attending to my children who were doing their assignments. He was angry with me for not answering his challenge, so he went to the kitchen and g[o]t a bolo and cut the antenna wire to stop me from watching television. xxx xxx xxx A He switch[ed] off the light and the children were shouting because they were scared and he was already holding a bolo. Q How do you describe this bolo? A 1 1/2 feet. xxx xxx xxx Q You said the children were scared, what else happened as Ben was carrying that bolo? A He was about to attack me so I ran to the room. Q What do you mean that he was about to attack you? A When I attempted] to run he held my hands and he whirled me and I fell [on] the bedside.11 xxx COURT xxx xxx