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I think it is very important to more widely discuss the facts that
it is possible to abuse someone unintentionally and unknowingly,
it is possible to be abusive towards or harm someone you truly do love,
engaging in abusive behavior is not necessarily caused by being a fundamentally evil person,
it is possible to be traumatized by the actions of someone which were not done with intention to hurt you, and
it is possible to be hurt or traumatized by an interpersonal situation that is not best characterized as abuse.
This is for several reasons:
It will make it easier for someone to realize and recognize if they are engaging in abusive behaviors towards someone else (because often times they will think: I am not an evil person, so what I do cannot be abusive), and stop this behavior and make amends to the target.
It will allow people to recognize their trauma and heal. (For example, one may think, "I must be imagining any emotional trauma-like symptoms I am experiencing, because I know my parents loved me! They did some things that hurt me, but other than that they treated me well. They are not bad people." It is still entirely possible to experience trauma from such a situation.)
(less likely) It may deter people from labeling an interpersonal conflict or a toxic relationship as abuse when this label is not applicable in that situation.
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Believe in Miracles and they will know
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