"Plenty of other ways to hurt someone without doing it physically," she agreed with a nod.
"I guess it's one of the few blessings I have of my parents. I think they genuinly cared for eachother, but marriage just wasn't something either of them wanted... they got along pretty well whenever I saw them together. And trying to control my mother would've been a lesson in futility," she chuckled with some admiration of the woman she still idolized.