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I agree with abaya, it SHOULD be a dealbreaker. Thing is, a lot of times, contexts and situations aren't as clear cut as they seem when we talk about them hypothetically. Emotional abuse is often even harder to realize - often when you're in love you try to explain things away.
But yeah, a guy who strikes you once has it in him to do it again. So you're better off walking away.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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