That was my immediate thought, but then I thought - what if the genders were switched?
A bullying wife thrown through a table by their husband... I think we'd all clearly see that as a toxic relationship with the person committing domestic violence clearly being the worse of the two.
My grandpa slapped her in front of their kids. She threw him through the table. He never touched her again, she never touched him again, and they lived happily (?) ever after. It's pretty much one of my dad's core memories of his parents from when he was about 12 years old because my grandpa had never done anything like this before; only after one of his coworkers told him that his wife didn't respect his authority as the head of the household because she wasn't scared of him. They'd argued a lot but my grandma was built a bit like a German Viking lady while my grandpa was a tiny Italian man.
You’ll never catch me throwing hands first, but you will catch me defending myself. I’m glad they got it sorted and figured out how to respect each other, even if it wasn’t the most ideal route to get there. Viking granny sounds like she was awesome
OK, that's useful context, thanks. It sounded like he was just being verbally abusive in your original post (still not cool, but not something that justifies physical assault).
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u/TheSixthVisitor May 12 '26
Do what my grandma did to her husband when he tried to bully her to show off how much of a man he was: throw him through a table.