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I think on any scale of abuse your experience ranks VERY high. 2x daily abuse for years. Quite an extraordinary abuse of power on his part. Let’s not downplay it because it was not sexual. Abuse is abuse is abuse.

Regarding talk of physical abuse here lately, it’s quite alarming and sad to me to be reading some of the responses, truth he told. Just like the coach was in a position of power, “vets” here can wield that same degree of authority to people who are in a desperately low time of their lives. I see an abuse of power in telling someone who is physically abused that you can help or “this too shall pass” or “just GAL and DB and you too can reconcile.” It is unhealthy to enable.

Meanwhile some of these same “vets” tell a man to throw a WAW wife out for being disrespectful.

I can see why reading some of this is drawing forth past demons. I have no abuse in my background and I am disturbed.