Confronting Domestic Violence: The covert abuser casts himself as hero

Nearly a 100 years ago, Ernest Hemingway wrote a book about bullfighting. In it, he described in loving detail the ambush of a trapped animal by a dozen armed men, surrounded in turn by a thousand bloodthirsty fans cheering until the last fatal blow was struck, reminiscent of gladiator days. Now, in our modern, evolved era, we have boxing or MMA to slake the common man’s taste for bread and circuses. And for covert abusers, we have social gatherings. Read more