My feeling Wendy is that fighting Lori is probably not a good idea.If youve no experience of fighting and she is how you describe then being honest you likely to get badly hurt.Even if you won youd be in pain.If you decide you want to go ahead have at least 2 people who can stop it should it get out of hand,and i mean people who can physically get you apart not wave their arms about screaming at you to stop.
My wife,whos a nurse has had a few catfights had a pre arranged catfight with another nurse where we live.Myself and the other nurses girlfriend were here to stop it if we had to(in fact the 2 of us had discussed how we would stop it).I got to admit i was turned on by it,but was a bit nervous as my wife had a 3 stone(45lbs) weight disadvantage,but i wanted them to fight here so they didnt go somewhere else to settle it with no one to stop them and one or both of them(for i had no quarrel with other nurse......was a work thing) get hurt.Thankfully they really only stuck to hairpulling,lasted 6 or 7 minutes,the odd thump but no one got really hurt and the other nurse gave up, and my wife and her are reasonably friendly these days
If you do decide you really want to fight her then get some training,even if it only wrestling or boxing.As for being intimidated cos shes black thats what they rely on in many cases,like whites some are very tough and some definetely arent.People from Glasgow over here in the UK do the same thing,though even if theyre weak chances are theyve got something to slash at you with.Just put the whole black thing out of your head,else you beat before you start.
good luck and hope your husband loves you wahtever you decide...........or the result is xx