tsatske
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Joined: 3/9/2007 From: Louisville, KY Status: offline
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The not allowing her to buy her glasses is certainly abusive, in a power structure where one partner is allowed to make the decision for another partner. Power is to be used with great care, not abused. I really like the needs/Needs/Wants/wants dynamic someone suggested. That said, it is possible that we don't have enough information. Perhaps, for instance, there was a fishing trip coming up which needed to be paid for this week. There is enough money for it in the fund for her glasses. There would be enough money for it, anyway, next month... so you are not so much denying her glasses as postponing them for a month. Depending on how badly she needs them (just the time of year to get a replacement pair? doing fine without them but still supposed to have them? or lost hers and can't see the nose on her face?) this might not be abuse, though it might be the kind of thing a couple might have a tiff over. Leaving the agreed on, consensual aspects of their relationship, however, and doing violence in anger, is definitely abusive, IMO.
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