gonzo

Whoever that was can't reply now POHP, as they are banned here. Yes, the real AngryDan is banned at HBO RT.

al Asaad

Are you, like me, a certified Alcohol and drug abuse counselor (U. of Illinois at Chicago, 1971)?
Most violent abusers are drug or alcohol users. Alcohol users drink at home, though most times they also meet many of their victims at bars; hell, you knew that.
Drug users on the other hand, use drugs anyplace. You knew that too.
No way in hell you or anyone can make that assertion with such certainty simply because the person did not say or infer such.

The OP is delberately vauge in critical details.
But what a "victim" of prior abuse might or might not say can only be determined by counceling sessions.
Often you may be 10-20 sessions into a client before you can determine whether abuse has happened, be it violence, sexual, parental abuse. and that knowledge has to be determined by a clinician.
That she would mention the lack of abuse speaks volumes for prior incidents.

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[quote=al Asaad;177520]Are you, like me, a certified Alcohol and drug abuse counselor (U. of Illinois at Chicago, 1971)?[/QUOTE

Some of the drug users and dealers I've known are certified drug counslers.



But not all or even most, drug or alchol users are abusive.

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PursuitOfHappinessParty

Don't take this the wrong way.......

If I take this as fact that the lady in question doesn't have low self-esteem from childhood abuses, sending her into abusive relationships as a valience shift, and that she's a clinically 'normal' person then I must then question YOUR history.

This person might be having a brain-fart type slip-o-th'-tongue, and meant that she was numerically lucky not to have been with an abusive significant other (comparative to the number of abusive relationships). That's how I would've interpreted it.
You interpreted it as saying SHE was lucky to have managed to 'score' a non-abusive partner. This leads me to wonder about what abuses childhood brought you, either personally or witnessed.

That'll be $2.50 couch session fee.

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