to Xanax, he was suicidal. That’s what drove him into counselling. He was a mess.’ Rob nods quietly. During their first session, Rob says his counsellor asked him a series of questions. ‘Do you raise your voice, do you yell, do you throw things, do you call your wife names, do you swear, do you bash things – not her, but things – and it was kind of tick, tick, tick,’ Rob remembers. ‘And then he went to a filing cabinet in his office, and pulled out an A4 piece of paper with a preprinted “Cycle of Violence” on it, and he whacked that on the table and he said, “That’s what you do. This is what
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