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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you considered that you can both be abused AND be abusive all in the same relationship. [/quote]

Of course. There is a significant percentage of people in the DV support world who have engaged in reactive abuse. This is why many many DV orgs do NOT advocate for mandatory arrest DV laws and similar. We know that it can be hard to establish who was the perpetrator in a situation, and women have been swept up in unfair arrests.

But that’s not the point of this post. At all. [/quote]

What is “reactive abuse” though? A woman screaming at her DH then her DH punching her has not engaged in “reactive abuse.” I don’t think that’s what OP is talking about.

I think the extremely attenuated definition of “abuse” is possibly what may be leading to an uptick of the type of woman OP is talking about, claiming victim status based on a TikTok definition of abuse. Just like there has been a proliferation of self-diagnosis in other areas based on social media …[/quote]

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