What You Should Know About Dating An Abuse Survivor
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Julia Austin
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What you can do
Honestly, that last point is something you have to decide if you can live with. Not everybody can. Abuse survivors can throw tantrums, break things, lock themselves in a room all day, and say hurtful things they really don’t mean. The best you can do is know that when they act like this, they aren’t themselves—that’s not your partner. That’s the abuse.
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