again with the guns. Thankfully I'm speaking a lot more from second person experience than first, but I seriously hope you're joking. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to consider dependent children's relationships with their parents, abused spouses when children are involved, etc. Human psychology has a heck of a lot more to it than just threats of physical force--and anyone who's really gotten down into the guts of it will tell you physical force is by no means the strongest tool for manipulation.
I'm well aware of such relationships, and I even have firsthand experience with them. And yes, with the guns, because there WAS somebody with an actual gun to force me into such an unwanted abusive relationship. He was called a "police officer." And he even pulled his gun. It was quite surreal, to learn as a teenager that cops weren't (always) the good guys.
When the gun is in YOUR face, you will have that moment too. And while I hope it never happens, it seems that for some people that's the only way they will learn the truth.
I'm very sorry that you had to experience that. I've faced guns multiple times myself, including during wartime, and I wouldn't minimise the intensity of those moments. We might be closer to the same page than it seems, because what I was thinking when I wrote the above paragraph was that I'd rather be back in front of those guns than face some of the abusive situations others close to me have been through. For me only my life was at stake, and only for a moment. The price I've seen others pay is far higher--and I would never begin to blame
them for what some sick bastard did to them.