How to Talk to a Woman Who Refuses to Be Hit

"I didn't know how to verbally converse with my wife without putting her down and beating her up verbally," Chris Brown writes. "For some reason, some crazy reason, I would kick him when she was down." Oprah: Does a man continue to hit a woman who refuses to be hit? He says it could have been reversed in the sense of, OK, I'm going to have to tame this one. 'It's different for each man on how his thing is'