I am a foot taller than my ex, so anyone that looked at us would really think that

if there was an abusive relationship, it wasn't gonna be me receiving, I guess.

Welcome back to other people's lives, I'm Joe Sannegado.

I'm Greg Dybeck. For anyone out there that would like to be a guest on our show,

don't hesitate to reach out to us, our email is opalpodcast.com, just send us an email with your story,

and we'll get back to you. Yes, today we're speaking with a man who reached out and wants to

talk about a side of abusive relationships that isn't talked about so often. In this case,

it's a man being abused by a woman in the relationship, which can often be brushed off as not

that serious or not likely or that a man might be exaggerating the abuse, but this is obviously a

very real dynamic in relationships out there, so we'll be hearing about it from a man's perspective

from someone who has gone through it. So we've got the guests on the line, and first of all,

thanks so much for being on and sharing your story today. Thank you for having me.

Yeah, of course. So I didn't spoil it in the intro, but your email subject line was very specific

in the sense of you kind of, I guess painting a picture of the difference between you and your

girlfriend. Can you kind of talk about that a little bit? Yeah, basically I tried to make it a

point to, I mean, if you looked at the two of us, the main thing I wanted to specify was I am a

foot taller than my ex, so I was six, one, six two around that range, and she was like five foot.

But basically saying anyone that looked at us would really think that if there was an abusive

relationship, it wasn't going to be me receiving, I guess. Right. So I guess I would try and like,

that's basically my, what I wanted to specify in, because it's basically just don't trust

basically what you see, because it's not always what actually is happening.

Okay, so can you kind of describe exactly what the situation was? I mean, you kind of painted

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