Trigger warning

Kim said that Honey showed up with a black eye today. No euphemisms: Her boyfriend punched her in the face. We've known for months that her boyfriend's controlling, and he started pushing her around a couple of months into their relationship. Now he's hit(ting) her.

(I say "pushing her around" because that's how Kim phrased it.)

Kim says, and I agree, that there's not much coincidence in the fact that the violence has escalated - - no euphemisms: that he's begun to hit her - - just as Honey's b