Prompted in part by its disappointing debut at the box office, both Mr. Affleck and Mr. Phoenix confessed last week that it was all an act, an attempt to explore celebrity and media and the mutually abusive relationship the two have long had, with the public as their codependent child.
The kinky, and also mutually abusive, relationship between Buffy and her bad-boy vampire boyfriend, Spike, kept shifting back and forth in meaning, with coercion and violence, exploitation and role play, combining into a toxic mess.
"Love the Way You Lie", the ballad about a mutually abusive, passionate relationship which Rihanna helped top the US charts, is then dedicated to the "ladies of London".
Back then, they won acclaim for their puerile anarchism – the sweaty, mutually abusive and liberatingly silly nature of their three-man comic floorshow.
I suppose, in the case of Piccadilly, the artist is trying to uncover some awful truth about the "special relationship", rendering it as a kind of secret, mutually abusive bond.
Devitt said evidence in the case showed that the couple was in a mutually abusive relationship, but he said that doesn't justify killing.
Beneficiaries sometimes become abusive with their children.
There is nothing that teaches you how to deal with abusive people, with abusive men.
There's nothing more toxic than dealing with an abusive relationship with your parents.
Mutually agreed with INF Rich Aurilia to decline his contract option.
