: The people who justify domestic abuse and the people who condemn it have significantly different views of human psychology and human relationships. By choosing how to place that abusive act

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The people who justify domestic abuse and the people who condemn it have significantly different views of human psychology and human relationships. By choosing how to place that abusive act in context, you as an author are signaling what your view is, and by implication, your moral judgement of the abuse.

You could have a story in which a hard-working husband is constantly nagged and berated by his shrewish wife, and while he tries to absorb her tirades with manly self-control, he reaches a point where he just can’t stop himself and smacks her.

Or you could have a story in which a terrorized wife tiptoes around a husband with a massive sense of entitlement, trying to anticipate his every need, getting emotional and verbal abuse whenever she—even accidentally—fails to meet his expectations, and then one day she talks back to him because she can’t stand it any more, and he beats her senseless.

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