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My friend grew up with an abusive father until her mother file for divorce shortly after her 15th b-day.

Years later, she just got married in 2015:
- I've heard them arguing a couple times. She has publicly screamed at/insulted him once and gave empty threats about taking away their son (later on she told me she didn't really mean and that's only to scare him a bit).
- She bragged to me that sometimes when they argue, she denies him physical intimacy and gives him the cold shoulder. Most of the times he ends up apologizing.
- I saw her getting in his car (after an argument) and laughing as he was practically begged him to open the door. She drove off and he had to get a ride to get to work.
- Overall, a couple other friends and me thinks she's somewhat verbally domineering.

Though she's nothing in comparing to her father, who was abusive in every way and into beatings; she still sounds somewhat controlling.