I reread the book not long ago and she talks about how they do usually have sex after a fight, but like tender, tearful, apologetic sex, not violently fucking in a closet. I think the show is trying to amp up the sex by making that a major factor in the abuse, when I just don't think it was in the book.

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I just wanted to thank you for so beautifully articulating what I've been thinking about all this but am totally not clever enough to express.

In third grade my class accidentally watched some porn. We had been watching some Christmas-y movie right before Christmas break and a few minutes after the movie ended, the TV came back on to show what I now know was an old guy getting a hand job from some lady who looked disturbingly like Suzanne Somers. Apparently,…