Signs Your Teen Is In An Abusive Relationship And How To Address It
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Julia Austin
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Abuse doesn’t come from out of the blue
“Abuse is not something you start out of nowhere,” Hatwood says. “It’s a learned behavior. Any behavior that we accept, or do, it’s because of some sort of observation we made growing up. For me, I was disciplined with a strap. My parents hit me with a belt, but said they still loved me. I didn’t realize it wasn’t okay for someone else to do that. I started to believe that I deserved that kind of treatment and that if a man did not hit me, that he didn’t love me. I would try to make men hit me. That was the only love that I understood at the time. And my daughter went into an unhealthy relationship because she saw her mother in unhealthy relationships.”
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