This book will focus on the rights each spouse has under certain laws, situations, and circumstances, and how the division of the property will be decided by the court or through negotiation.
[quote]He may be a bum for living off of you and getting his degree at your expense plus having an affair, but please don't diminish the cause of people who have really been the victim of violence by suggesting that arguments between you make you a victim because of "verbal violence" unless of course his verbal violence consists of actual credible threats to hurt you immediately... The problem with accusing someone of verbal violence that has never been backed up with physical force is that unless it's an actual credible threat of imminent violence, everyone who has ever been in a realtionship knows how easy it is to mis-construe things, take them out of context. [/quote]
Or he could be verbally violent. She's there, not you. Not every case is like your anecdote.
Verbally violent may be a very accurate term for what he is doing.
Automatically assuming that she's exxagerating because your friend's ex did is a little silly.