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    8 months ago

    Domestic abuse isn’t just physical violence, it can also include manipulation, coercion, and other forms of control.

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        8 months ago

        I was saying that he is an abuser, just not necessarily a physically violent one. His abuse and control prevented her from getting the vaccine.

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        8 months ago

        OP has said elsewhere in the thread that they knew this couple at the time and she did not have a meaningful say in the situation. She was threatened with divorce if she had gotten the vaccine. For a lot of women, their economic situations are such that a sudden divorce would likely lead to poverty and homelessness as well as loss of meaningful support for any of their children.

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            8 months ago

            Then you don’t have a very good understanding of what domestic abuse situations are actually like. I hope that you can expand your understanding through empathetic learning and that you don’t have to learn via personal or close vicarious experience.