Childhood Pain Can Lead to Adult Relationship Abuse

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/charm-harm/202008/childhood-pain-can-lead-adult-relationship-abuse

Children who sustained painful emotional wounds from their parents and others can carry that pain into adulthood. Their adult relationships bring up their original pain and cause a lot of inner conflict. Often it is easier to inflict that pain onto their partners rather than look inward for the real source of their hurt, anger,