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by jstarfish 1048 days ago
> Anyone who has been in a relationship knows singular reasons are an oversimplification of a complicated relationship.

Oh come on:

> The 27-year-old said he would would view up to 700 text passages a day, many depicting graphic sexual violence. He recalls he started avoiding people after having read texts about rapists and found himself projecting paranoid narratives on to people around him. Then last year, his wife told him he was a changed man, and left. She was pregnant at the time. “I lost my family,” he said.

I deal with forensics and have incidental contact with similar; it rubs off on you. Even my own post history reflects a similar personality change over time; I've been accused of being an unmedicated schizophrenic (by someone committing disability fraud of all things). You stop sleeping, knowing what other people are capable of doing, concealing, and actively thinking about (especially when it's people you otherwise think you "know"). You come home progressively-broken from the shit you witness. Add to that a pregnant wife (the pinnacle of logic, reason and stability) and divorce is inevitable. It doesn't need a "complicated" relationship; when you look online, therapists will try to skim whatever they can off of you on the way out but /r/divorce is touted as the only solution to all marital problems-- especially "depressed spouse."

The man's job compelled him to read the equivalent of "The 120 Days of Sodom" every day. I couldn't even stomach it a single time as an edgelord teenager.

> Why not refuse the work or raise the complaint at the time?

Where's your empathy? The company set up shop in Africa for the purpose of exploiting everybody willing to walk through its doors. They don't need to put up with revolutionaries; they'll throw your ass out onto the street because there's a line of people who'll take your spot without complaint. Not an ideal situation to be in when you have a child on the way.