Chumly wrote:
The company of strangers is safer than the company of loved ones, sad to say it's the price we must pay for intimacy; not that I am condoning nor accepting of familial violence.
Aw hell no. If my husband ever hits me, I'm out of there. Period. There is no excuse for violence.
Verbal abuse is slightly harder to pin down and leave from because often it's subtle. However, a slap a punch a kick is very obvious abuse and has no place within intimacy.