[arista]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

My take on the story is that they were both physically violent (and generally toxic) to each other throughout the relationship, but he "called time" first and stopped the violence, basically saying "we can't go on like this", but she continued being violent and (for whatever reason ) refused to even commit to ending the violence and even sort of suggested she liked things the way they were.

I don't think there's a clear-cut villain in the story really. I don't think either of them were good to each other, but I think she had her own issues that meant she saw the mutual violence and abuse as part of a "passionate relationship". It's sadly not all that uncommon.

So Dan Wooton's Source
was right then.