How Does Abuse Affect Relationships

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How can being abused affect a person’s relationships? Victims of abuse can later abuse others, try hurting themselves, and sometimes go on to live normal lives. Being abused can greatly affect a person’s relationships with others.
People can go on to abuse others after they themselves have been abused. People learn from others around them so, if they grew up with abuse they could think that abuse is a good way to treat people. People can try really hard to hold in their emotions so they can be different than the abuser but instead by holding in their emotions when they finally let out their emotions it will be much more extreme. If the first emotion to come out is anger or hate they could abuse others which would be more extreme than just

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