Love Should Not Hurt: Violence in Relationships

The American Psychiatric Association describes Domestic violence as "control by one partner over another in a dating, marital or live-in relationship." Abuse is not an accident. It does not happen because someone was stressed-out, drinking, using drugs, repressed or discriminated against. It is not an example of love gone amuck, as often characterized, but the absence of love and respect. The abuser has constructed a reality where their needs dominate relationships. Abusers have learned to satisfy this distorted sense of self through their abuse and feel justified in it's use whether physical, sexual, emotional, or psychological. Join The FLOW, guests and callers, as we explore why Love Should Not Hurt.