When is it time to say no?

So many contemporary relationships have turned to abuse. We write about politics, current events, what's going on in our classes and ignore what is happening between our roommate and their significant other.

If the other half of your relationship hits you, do you walk away?

What about if they apologize profusely and show up the next day with presents and kisses?

If they start monopolizing your time and telling you that you should stop hanging out with your friends, is it time to peace out?

Or do you give them another chance, telling the friends who witnessed it that it's a one time thing.

The day I start apologizing for my significant other is the day I start to reevaluate my relationship. I'm not sitting on a high horse not know what it's like to love somebody who hits you. I've been there and for all you know I'm there right now projecting here instead of dealing with it myself.

It's scary to be alone when you've been with somebody for so long... somebody who says they love you every night before you both go to sleep.

Even so, I'm so sick of listening to really intelligent people spit Nietzsche at me one moment and come to me sniffling with a bruise under their eye the next. It's hard but most people have a close knit group of friends to fall back on when things get tough and you feel alone. Those without good friends usually have family and those with none of the above must know, or will know now, of all the hotlines out there to seek advice from.

Before we start theorizing the rest of the world away, we would do best to clean up our own backyard.

That's all I have for you today.