In an environment like New York City that is filled with violence, Hodes had boldly started to notice that clients were increasingly confused about what the word “Abuse” actually means. That it was overused. The paradox is, of course, that many women are unable to recognize that they are being abused, or cannot get acknowledgment of this reality from others. But at the very same time, Hodes found that some women were applying the term Abuse to situations that were really something else. Increasingly, she noticed that women who did not know how to resolve a problem sometimes described that
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is it just women, though?
