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How Abuse Victims Sometimes Become Perpetrators

My mother-in-law treats my wife exactly like her abusive mother treated her and my wife doesn't see it happening but I do.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The normalization of abusive dynamics can make it difficult to recognize when we are perpetuating the very patterns that harmed us.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Generational trauma — identifying and interrupting?”

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