I Would Have Left Sooner if He Had Hit Me

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Someone laying a hand on me in any way physically with aggression and the intention to hurt me was always a situation in which I would leave immediately. No chance for explanation, I would be out. When it comes to domestic violence it feels like it’s easier to explain to people that I left because he was physically hurting me than to try and explain that his punches came from his words and actions leaving scars and…