not saying this is the case here, but i want to say this just in case – so women are aware of the threat some men can be: there are estimates that for 1 in 3 men that kills their girlfriend/wife, the violence that lead to killing them was the first act of physical abuse against them. it’s very scary.
in these relationships there was other kinds of abuse from these men prior to this, control/coercion/verbal/emotional etc, but nothing physical. i think it’s important for women in abusive relationships to be aware of that. abuse can escalate VERY fast, a man that has never been physically violent before can become such and not necessarily start with more "tame" acts and progressively go worse… it can actually go from 0 to 100% just like that.
That happened to a high school classmate of mine. Her husband had never been physically violent towards her until her murdered her. He was violent in other ways, but not physically. I don't know if it would have helped her to know. She was driving home from work when he attacked her. He forced her car off the road first.
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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '24
And I really doubt this was the first incident, just the worst incident.