“Dr. King, speak to how it is for the mature woman in an abusive relationship and how it is for her when she leaves,” writes a reader.

My knee jerk response to this request was, “the dynamics are the same.” Battering is battering is battering. An abuse dynamic that is long standing or discovered later in life resembles an abuse dynamic earlier in life.

If it is, indeed, “intimate partner violence,” Read the rest of this entry

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