Is this kind of behavioral pattern defined as abuse or immaturity?
Even the smaller things, like the cold shoulder, or leaving, are ways to manipulate you. Not letting you go out when you want to, and hitting walls at the very though of other men seeing you in public is pretty extreme, and ABUSIVE. The verbal and physical assault is just TOTALLY crossing the line. Immaturity and abuse are not on the same page. They aren’t even in the same book. What you went through is ABUSE. I am concerned over this situation because it seems you are in a CYCLE OF VIOLENCE. Please read over this website: http://www.helpguide.org/mental/domestic… Look for the section on cycle of violence in particular. What I think you have experienced is the abuse stage… I now think you are experiencing the guilt and rationalization stage, perhaps you have even passed on to the “normal” behavior stage. The only way that I see this person changing is with intense psych
