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{{trope}}
Domestic abuse, defined as physical or emotional abuse between members of a romantic relationship, is a recurring comedy trope throughout history. Why this is so is somewhat understandable- after all, [[Comedic Sociopathy|physical and verbal abuse between characters is funny]], and characters often find themselves in romantic relationships. Ergo, domestic abuse can be funny. Lately, however, the [[Unfortunate Implications]] of
In modern times male-on-female domestic abuse is most often used as the impetus for more dramatic plot developments, such as a wife having to face the fear of domestic violence and gain the courage to leave her marriage. In these cases a [[Dude, Not Funny]] may be uttered if someone tries to make light of the situation. [[Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male)|Woman-on-man domestic abuse is still almost always played for laughs]].
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See also [[Values Dissonance]] and [[Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male)]].
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== Advertising ==
* Example with the [[Double Standard]]: in a commercial for a certain mattress company, a wife gets fed up with her husband's constant tossing and turning, and clubs him unconscious with a frying pan. This is [[Hilarity Ensues|supposed to be funny]].
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* Pretty much every anime with a [[Tsundere]] female lead. I beat you because I love you.
** Also see [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] for $500, Alex.
* In the English dub of the anime ''[[
** In one episode where the family is staying in an apartment, they hear a male and female voice yelling at each other and then the woman screaming. Convinced that the woman is being beaten by her boyfriend/husband, Hiro breaks down the door to stop what's going on, only to find out that it's a crossdressing actor.
* Genma Saotome, of ''[[Ranma ½]]'', once used a [[Martial Arts and Crafts|"martial arts move"]] based off of [[Flipping the Table]]. Not only did he use it against his own ''wife'', the [[Hot Shonen Mom]] Nodoka Saotome, he did it in order to get his hands on a medal worth 20 yen. For added measure, the technique's [[Calling Your Attacks|name]] is "Angry Dad Attack/Wrath of the Father". Then again, this is the same guy who was outright horrified to find his son's skills as a martial artist had progressed to the point where he could no longer [[Abusive Parents|beat his son up and steal his food, the way he did when his son was a little boy... and who reacted by practically disowning said son.]] [[Jerkass|So is it really any surprise?]]
** An arc had Ranma attempting to get Ukyo to break their suddenly more serious engagement by practicing this
* Why not just say anyone in a [[Takahashi Couple]]? Speaking of [[Rumiko Takahashi|the woman]], is there any of her comedy works that doesn't include the female [[Tsundere]] beating the male [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]? I'm not including some of her more serious or darker works.
** [[RIN-NE]] is probably the only one that's not one of her darker world. It might be that she's tired of it, actually.
** Not between the main couple, but ''The Mermaid Saga'' has a pair of siblings who are the children of a wealthy family. The son is a complete sociopath who is only protected because of the love of his sister. He shows his gratitude by emotionally and implicitly physically attacking her, as well as poisoning her fiance so she won't leave and stop protecting him. {{spoiler|After they both "die" from eating mermaid flesh, he continues to abuse her, stealing an eye from her unrotting corpse and then cutting off the head so she'll stop "haunting" him. He also picks up the [[Nightmare Fuel|charming]] habit of dating girls that look like his sister, only to murder them.}}
* ''[[
** Disturbingly, Saito fans seem to selectively ignore major gaffs on Saito's part in favor of ragging on Louise for reacting to them with equal abuse. For example, it is frequently noted how Louise upgrades to beating Saito with a real whip in the second [[Light Novel]] rather than her usual riding crop; less often is it mentioned that this was provoked by Saito ''trying to undress Louise in her sleep''.
* Yaoi anime ''[[Kizuna]]'' plays this for laughs. The [[Clingy Jealous Girl|extremely jealous Uke]] (Ranmaru) punches his boyfriend and Seme (Kei) so that he flies across the room, yet no one thinks twice about it.
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** Before that, we see that Akito's mother emotionally blackmailed her husband into agreeing {{spoiler|to raise Akito as a boy}}, threatening to abort their child if he didn't agree. She later went on to emotionally abuse the heck out of Akito, which is where Akito picked it up from.
** Kagura regularly beats the shit out of Kyo. The manga-ka of the series lampshades it by saying that Kagura hits Kyo "because she loves him". Um...
* ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' has a [[Running Gag]] of Rosette hitting Chrono when she's
** And since his powers are fueled by ''her soul'', any non-lethal damage inflicted on him ultimately ends up doing more harm to her.
* The second season of ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' has Rue suffering from emotional and, later, physical abuse
** The first season also has Fakir treating Mytho roughly, including one point where he slaps Mytho for defying an order. Not played ''quite'' as seriously as the above example, but still portrayed as pretty shocking to the people that witness it. Later {{spoiler|when Mytho frames Fakir for trying to kill him under the influence of Raven's blood, most of the class has an easy time believing it thanks to witnessing the previous moments of abuse.}}
* Happens in the first chapter of ''[[Oyasumi Punpun]]''.
* This is the reason the Brunette has her husband killed in ''[[Gunjo]]''.
* Narusegawa Naru from ''[[Love Hina]]'', full stop, to the point where she is [[flanderized]] in the anime as this. Kanako is the only one who manages to retaliate against her, and only once. After that, it's back to punting Keitaro into the horizon.
* Domestic abuse is part of Minai's backstory on ''[[Corpse Princess]]''. One night after being beat by her boyfriend she snaps and kills him and then commits suicide, only to come back as a shikabane.
* Hermann Preminger, the main villain of ''[[Ashita no Nadja]],'' occasionally beats his wife whenever her son from her previous marriage isn't around to defend her.
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==
* ''[[Andy Capp]]'' used to qualify. In one of Britain's longest-running newspaper comics, things are getting steadily better. Andy Capp used to give Flo black eyes on a regular basis. Later, she was more and more often shown winning the fights, sending Andy tumbling out of the house and into the gutter. In fact, Andy looked like he was becoming an abused husband for a while. Now, however, they almost never resort to violence and attend marriage guidance meetings. He's [[Jumped the Shark|stopped smoking]], too.▼
* The newspaper comic ''[[Bringing Up Father]]'' used to ''own'' this trope, at least until the sixties. Jiggs' wife Maggie was notoriously violent, and her rolling pin became a trademark of the comic.▼
** Lampshaded in a [http://therainer.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html vintage issue] of ''[[Mad Magazine]]'', where [[Darker and Edgier|Jiggs' injuries]] are shown in a [http://tinyurl.com/6k46y6 fairly gruesome realistic style]. This satire on domestic abuse ran in Mad #17, 1954.▼
* ''[[The Lockhorns]]'' is an American strip that thinks a [[So Unfunny It's Funny|hateful marriage is comedy]]. While it has never featured physical abuse, some of the hurtful remarks the two of them make about each other borders on psychological abuse.▼
* [[Ultimate Universe|Ultimate]] Hank Pym is terribly abusive to his wife. This is a carry over of the original Pym's [[Never Live It Down|defining moment]] of slapping his wife one time in the middle of a nervous breakdown induced by a supervillain.▼
** Leading to a very satisfying moment when Captain America beat the crap out of him while he was 10 stories high.▼
* This plays into the very first ''[[Superman]]'' comic, where Clark Kent somehow gets involved in a domestic abuse case, leading to Superman intervening with the line, "[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|YOU'RE NOT FIGHTING A WOMAN ANYMORE!]]"
* In ''[[Batman]]'', seeing a man beat his wife or girlfriend is a major [[Berserk Button]] for Jason Todd. He once killed a man for beating his girlfriend so badly {{spoiler|that it caused her to commit suicide - the boyfriend got away scot-free because he was the son of a diplomat, and this drove Jason to take matters into his own hands}}.
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* ''[[Luminosity]]'' [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstructs]] the mate bond in ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'', ending up with this. Vampires assume their mates love them
* [[iCarly|Sam Puckett]] can have a relationship with Freddie like this. Weirdly, this can be done for Sam/Freddie and Carly/Freddie, with the latter generally being a [[Hurt
** [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5190928/1/A_Darkened_Mind_Part_One Example].
* This is usually trotted out in fanfiction as a convenient [[Die for Our Ship]] strategy. For example, [[Harry Potter|Hermione can leave Ron]] because [[Sarcasm Mode|of ''course'']] he's an abusive nutjob!
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* Morgan's husband Rex in ''[[Saw]]'' ''IV'' is revealed to have beaten both her and their daughter for years.
* In ''The Notebook'', a scene takes place where a woman repeatedly shoves and hits a man.
* The [[Lifetime]] movie "Men Don't Tell" features a woman who was abused as a child committing
* ''The Burning Bed'', starring the late Farrah Fawcett, tells the true story of Francine Hughes, who killed her husband Mickey Hughes to escape 13 years of domestic abuse.
* In ''[[The Other Guys]]'' he never gets physical, but Allen Gamble ([[Values Dissonance|one of the heroes]]) is emotionally abusive to his wife to a rather disturbing extent, vigorously and repeatedly insulting her physical appearance, sense of style, cooking ability and calling her an adulterer and whore when she reveals that she is pregnant. This occurs both in private and in the presence of others. He later explains that he does this all because he fears that, if she ever realizes how truly beautiful she is, she will leave him; this makes things ''worse'', since it shows that he is aware that his actions are wrong and is [[What the Hell, Hero?|deliberately traumatizing his wife for his own ends]]. It is not [[Played for Laughs]], it does not set up an [[Aesop]], it is just...awful.
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** ''Bright Orange for the Shroud'': Arthur Wilkinson's wife married him as part of an elaborate scam to defraud him of all his money; she helped her partners in the scam by verbal abuse combined with the [[Lysistrata Gambit]] in order to push him into the investments they wanted him to make.
** ''Darker Than Amber'': Immediately prior to the opening of the story, McGee had been helping a woman get back on her feet after escaping from an emotionally (though not physically) abusive marriage.
** ''The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper'': That the local doctor suffered terrible verbal abuse for many years in his marriage, and was being [[
* The marriage of King Robert Baratheon and Cersei Lannister from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' is a particularly hellish and complicated case. Robert overthrew the previous dynasty when its crown prince, Rhaegar, kidnapped (or perhaps secretly eloped with) his beloved fiancee Lyanna. Meanwhile, Cersei had her heart set on Rhaegar. Robert killed Rhaegar in battle and won the crown, but Lyanna died during the war. To ensure the loyalty of her powerful noble family, Robert married Cersei. As you might expect, the marriage of two strangers, one of whom is mourning his true love while the other is resentful of both the fact that her new husband killed her crush and that she had no say in the marriage doesn't go well. When the books start about 15 years into their marriage, they're both regularly cheating on the other, Cersei is a sociopath who verbally abuses Robert at every turn and threatens the lives of his bastard children, and [[Boisterous Bruiser]] Robert doesn't know any way to respond to Cersei except by either drinking himself unconscious or hitting her. (Robert fully admits that being physically abusive isn't right, but honestly has no clue on other ways to deal with Cersei).
* In [[Stephen King]]'s novel ''Dolores Claiborne'', the title character is physically abused by her husband. She first accepts this, because she grew up in a rural community in the '30s, when this was socially acceptable, but eventually decides to stand up to him, and eventually kills him when she learns that he's [[Parental Incest|trying to make moves on their eldest daughter]].
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** In [[Real Life]], using the other partner's physical violence as a means of manipulation is unfortunately not unknown. One woman observed later that her part in her abusive marriage was a sick power game.
* In ''[[The Red Tent]]'', Laban beats the ever-living crap out of his second wife, Ruti. It gets so bad that she eventually {{spoiler|kills herself}}.
* The best Ekaterin from ''Komarr'' by Lois McMaster Bujold can say about her husband is "he never beat me". His
* The film version of [[Revenge of the Sith]] has Anakin, at the end, choking his wife, though he'd been solicitous to her before. In the [[Novelization]] by [[Matt Stover]], it has buildup. Throughout the novel, they're happy to see each other and in love... but when they first meet and Padme tries to tell him she's pregnant, he instantly assumes she has a lover and grabs her hard enough to hurt her. Over the course of the novel she repeatedly tells him he's scaring her, and this starts mattering to him less and less. He even once looks down at her and thinks that he ''likes'' it when she's afraid. Any time she talks about the war or the Senate, he turns on her - doesn't she understand that she should only talk about ''them'' and the baby? - and he starts to resent her job and all that time she spends at it away from him, maybe traitorous time. For her part, Padme is largely in denial over this side of him, but realizes at one point that there is one Jedi she ''does'' trust... and it's not him. The realization horrifies her, at least in part because if Anakin knew, he wouldn't be happy with her.
* Beatrice from [[Purple Hibiscus]] loses at least two children because her husband beats her. {{spoiler|Eventually, she's driven to murder.}}
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** Another episode had a crazy guy who made regular death threats against his wife, whom he suspected of cheating on him with his boss. He wasn't treated anywhere near so sympathetically.
* ''[[The Honeymooners]]'' got laughs out of Ralph's empty threats to his wife: "One of these days, Alice. Pow! Right in the kisser!" These were comedic because Alice (and the viewer) knew he was just blustering and would never follow through - he was actually shown to be afraid of Alice's wrath.
* Presidential sitcom satire [[That's My Bush!]] references the above Honeymooners line, with President Bush's catchphrase: "One of these days, Laura, I'm gonna punch you in the face!" This is said in unison with an excited studio audience.
* In the UK television series ''Blue Murder'', the episodes ''Private Sins (Parts One and Two)'' show a woman who is violently abusive to her husband, and in one case, poured battery acid on her ex-husband while he was sleeping.
* In an episode of ''55 Degrees North'' there was a man who, during a fight with his abusive wife, defended himself by stabbing her (not to death, though). If I remember correctly, the man in question asked to be arrested. He wanted to prove his manliness by having people think he was a jerk who abused his wife, because he was embarrassed that it was the other way around.
* [[
* Ricky Ricardo repeatedly turned Lucy over his knee and spanked her like a child after a particularly harebrained scheme. May count as [[Values Dissonance]] to modern audiences since at the time it was meant to be seen as funny.
* On ''[[The Walking Dead (TV series)|The Walking Dead]]'', Ed refuses to allow a little thing like the [[Zombie Apocalypse]] stop him from being a world-class wife-beating asshole. {{spoiler|As is typical of the genre, he quickly becomes an [[Asshole Victim]]. Twice.}}
* ''[[Law & Order|Law and Order]]'' had a unique variant in "Pride and Joy": an honors student son who verbally ''and'' physically abuses his superintendent father for not being successful enough compared to the parents of his peer group. This eventually results in the father's murder, and the mother is so cowed by her son that she helps provide an alibi.
* Although never specifically described as such, perhaps due to [[Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male)|the genders involved]], Niles's wife Maris from ''[[Frasier]]'' had a laundry list of actions proving her to be a [[Jerkass|vicious]], [[Control Freak|controlling]], [[Manipulative Bitch|manipulative]], [[Yandere|obsessive]], and inflicted emotional and psychological (and occasionally physical) abuse on her husband on a regular basis. She also progressed to financial abuse during the couple's messy divorce, bankrupting Niles purely out of spite despite initially getting a handsome settlement, though this changes when Nile's divorce lawyer found out that her family's fortune was made through urine cakes, and not lumber as she had told everyone.
** This series is notorious for its interesting subversion of the [[Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male)|Double Standard Abuse]] trope, with Frasier and Martin expressing how unacceptable her behavior is to Niles and encouraging him to stand up to her. When they finally divorce, everyone is gleeful about it.
* ''[[Roseanne]]'': Roseanne's sister, Jackie, was frequently involved in unstable, unhappy relationships, and the one fitting this trope involves a man named Fisher, who was her boyfriend during the 1992-1993 season; Darlene accidentally walks in on a nude Jackie in the bathroom and notices bruises.
* ''[[iCarly]]'': Sam and Freddie enter a relationship in Season 5, and in ''iCan't Take It'' we find out that Sam is still hitting Freddie. Carly says that it's sweet that Sam doesn't hit him in the face any more. She also tells them after several episodes of non-stop fighting that essentially subverts the [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] angle the shippers generally go for between the two, she tells them that if they can't quit fighting then something's wrong and they shouldn't be in a relationship at all.
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▲* ''[[Andy Capp]]'' used to qualify. In one of Britain's longest-running newspaper comics, things are getting steadily better. Andy Capp used to give Flo black eyes on a regular basis. Later, she was more and more often shown winning the fights, sending Andy tumbling out of the house and into the gutter. In fact, Andy looked like he was becoming an abused husband for a while. Now, however, they almost never resort to violence and attend marriage guidance meetings. He's [[Jumped the Shark|stopped smoking]], too.
▲* The newspaper comic ''[[Bringing Up Father]]'' used to ''own'' this trope, at least until the sixties. Jiggs' wife Maggie was notoriously violent, and her rolling pin became a trademark of the comic.
▲** Lampshaded in a [http://therainer.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html vintage issue] of ''[[Mad Magazine]]'', where [[Darker and Edgier|Jiggs' injuries]] are shown in a [http://tinyurl.com/6k46y6 fairly gruesome realistic style]. This satire on domestic abuse ran in Mad #17, 1954.
▲* ''[[The Lockhorns]]'' is an American strip that thinks a [[So Unfunny It's Funny|hateful marriage is comedy]]. While it has never featured physical abuse, some of the hurtful remarks the two of them make about each other borders on psychological abuse.
▲* [[Ultimate Universe|Ultimate]] Hank Pym is terribly abusive to his wife. This is a carry over of the original Pym's [[Never Live It Down|defining moment]] of slapping his wife one time in the middle of a nervous breakdown induced by a supervillain.
▲** Leading to a very satisfying moment when Captain America beat the crap out of him while he was 10 stories high.
== Puppet Shows ==
* Example [[Older Than Steam|too venerable]] [[Grandfather Clause|to stop soon]]: it seems unlikely that Mr. Punch will stop clubbing Judy.
== Theatre ==
* ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]''
* ''[[
* In [[Moliere]]'s ''[[The Doctor in Spite of Himself]]'' (a.k.a. ''Le Médecin Malgré Lui'' or ''The Unwitting Doctor''), the whole plot starts when Martine decides to get even with [[Lazy Husband|Sganarelle]] for beating her up.
* During the short play ''Trifles'' by Susan Glaspell it becomes obvious that the relationship between Mrs. Wright and her husband is a textbook case of
* ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]'': Ragueneau clearly doesn’t care about Lisa’s feelings or opinions; he prefers his [[False Friend|poet friends]] over her. Then Cyrano notices the very obvious truth that Lisa is cheating on him with a Mousketter. The second Act seems to play this situation for humor, but the very first words of the Third Act [[Deconstructed Trope|show us the severe consequences]] [[Played for Drama|of this when Raguenau admits]] he had an [[Interrupted Suicide]] when his wife abandoned him.
* In [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s ''Trial by Jury'', Edwin defends himself against the charge of breach of promise of marriage by defaming himself, proclaiming that he smokes and drinks to excess and that "I'm sure I would thrash her, perhaps I should kick her." The Judge proposes to get the defendant drunk and see if he would treat her as he said. Everyone else objects, with the natural exception of the defendant.
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* ''[[Silent Hill: Shattered Memories]]'' has the [[Multiple Endings|Wicked and Weak ending]] which shows {{spoiler|a woman verbally and physically abusing a man without being [[Played for Laughs]]}}. [[It Got Worse|What's worse]], {{spoiler|the entire incident is seen ''and filmed'' by their seven-year-old daughter, who was wandering around the house with a video camera}}.
* ''[[In the 1st Degree]]'' strongly indicates that this occurred between James Tobin and his girlfriend Ruby Garcia. She is said to be completely under Tobin's thumb, and they did get into a fight over a love letter Zachery Barnes sent to her. Played completely straight.
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* {{spoiler|Rupert Van Helden}} of ''[[Kate Modern]]'' shouts at, threatens and occasionally hits his wife, who tells her friends that the bruises are caused by [[Cut Himself Shaving|falling coconuts]].
* ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' characters often have to suffer through this (although it normally ties in with [[Abusive Parents]]). It seems to be a prerequisite of an [[Wangst|angsty backstory]].
* [[The Onion]] had an article mocking the [[Lifetime]] network's abused-wife-empowerment movies entitled "[https://web.archive.org/web/20100218234101/http://www.theonion.com/content/news/empowered_man_murders_controlling Empowered Man Murders Controlling Wife In Lifetime For Men Original Movie]".
* A rare example of male-on-female abuse being [[Played for Laughs]] is in [[The Nostalgia Chick]]'s "Top Ten Disturbing And Inescapable Christmas Songs". While the Chick dances gleefully to a country song, Nella (playing an abused wife) gets smacked around by her husband. The funniness comes in when he ''[[Crosses the Line Twice|starts giving her noogies]]''.
* [[The Nostalgia Critic]] knows what it's like to be on the receiving end, so he praises the Joker/Harley Quinn dynamic for capturing the trope so perfectly; that you realize fully your partner is bad for you, but there's something about them that makes you keep coming back.
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== Web Comics ==
* In ''MAG ISA'' [http://www.drunkduck.com/MAG_ISA/index.php?p=344980 Eman's dad routinely abuses his wife]{{Dead link}}.
* In Ursula Vernon's ''[[Digger]]'', female-on-male domestic abuse plays a huge and tragic part in one character's [http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=511 backstory.]
* ''[[Coming Up Violet]]'' features a different kind of domestic violence. [[Alpha Bitch|Racquel]] beats fellow classmate [[The Chessmaster|Abby]] when [http://jadephoenix.org/comingupviolet/2009/11/08/coming-up-violet-96/ she finds out that Abby had talked to the title character earlier in the day]{{Dead link}}. The dynamics are different, but the principles are the same.
* In ''[[Doc Rat]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20120322021348/http://www.docrat.com.au/default.asp?id=strip&thisitem=676 the good doctor makes a call to help a mother and son]. Truly a [[Tear Jerker]].
* In ''[[Something
* In ''[[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]]'', there's a lot of this in Abbey's past. The author began writing [http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/art/graveyard/unfinishedabbeychapter.png a chapter about it], but cancelled it lest it become too disturbing.
* [
* In ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (webcomic)|No Rest for The Wicked]]'', because [[Love Makes You Crazy]], [http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/02-38.html the Beast accuses Perrault of mistreating his other mistress -- being, in fact, wrong both about the mistress and how November acquired the bruise.]
* In ''[[Sakana]]'', this is the reason why {{spoiler|[[Grumpy Bear|Yuudai]]}} is so deeply angry. {{spoiler|His ex-boyfriend Arata put him through hell for the five years they've been dating. The crowning moment was when he [[Moral Event Horizon|slammed a bottle in his face]] (the reason why he has his trademark scar), [[Reality Ensues|evidently]] ending up their relationship.}} [[Jerkass|A]] [[Tsunshun|lot]] [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!|of]] [[Hates Everyone Equally|his]] [[Deadpan Snarker|behavior]] is clearly a [[Jerkass Facade|defense mechanism]] so as to [[Never Be Hurt Again|not be hurt like that again]].
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== Real Life ==
* Still a huge problem around the world, but at least it's not ''acceptable'' behavior in many countries anymore. And then, in some it is. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8375291.stm
* In Spain, if you are a woman and you beat your husband [[Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male)|you get
* [[Chris Brown]]. Although in that case, it might have been the [[Masochism Tango]], as Rhianna was reputedly the type to go blow-for-blow with him.
* This is subverted in a fashion in Russia. The fine for being found guilty of wife beating was $200. The fine for wrestling with a bear was $1000.
* [[Lindsay Lohan]]'s father Michael allegedly abused her mother Dina while they were married so he could blackmail Lindsay into working every day. Then he recently got jailed for physically and sexually abusing his ex-grlfriend Kate Majors. The rest of the family (Lindsay especially) wants nothing to do with him.
* In [[Joisey|New Jersey]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20120113100114/http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/prose/11253_dv_prevention_pamplet.pdf The Prevention of Domestic Violence Act] has a definition of domestic violence so broad that an 18 year old who is being abused by his or her [[Abusive Parents]] can charge them with domestic violence.
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'''Domestic abuse is a horrible experience to go through, and all too often the victims are shamed by their attackers into silence. If this is you, you need not be afraid. There are people who can and will help you.'''
'''If you are looking for help, put your browser into Safe Mode (no tracking, no cookies, no browser history) before following these links. That way, no record of your search will be kept by your computer for anyone else to find.'''
* Contact your local police station; they have lists of local groups and organisations who will give you assistance and support.
*
* Safe Horizon: 1-800-621-HOPE (1-800-621-4673), also available at
* In the UK, there's Refuge: 0808 2000 247, also available at
* In Scotland, you can call 0800 027 1234, or visit
* In Australia, you can call the Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Helpline: 1800 200 526.
* Canada does not have a nationwide help line; call 9-1-1 and talk to your local emergency response team (ambulance/paramedics, firefighters, and police). For further information, [http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cj-jp/fv-vf/help-aide.html this page] lists each province's website.
[[And Knowing Is Half the Battle|Now You Know]].
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