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does "he broke you down"here = he freak you out? make you crazy? really angry? “I snapped one day when he strolled into the place where I was hav-ing lunch with a coworker. I marched over, told him to leave me the hell alone, called him names, created a terrible scene until the woman I worked with got me out.” “He broke you down,” Eli stated. “Completely. He stayed absolutely calm through it, or I thought he did. And that night he broke into my apartment. He was waiting for me when I came home. He was out of control, completely out of con-trol. I fought back, but he was stronger. He had a knife—one of mine from my kitchen—and I thought he’d kill me. I tried to get out, but he caught me, and we struggled. He cut me.” Eli stopped walking, turned to take both of her hands.
May 23, 2015 9:30 AM
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It's sort-of like make you crazy - but crazy in a depressed way, rather than a frenetic way. To break someone down is to make them less in control of themselves, less self-confident, and more under your control. It's what happens with wives that get beaten regularly. They don't have the confidence or self control to just leave the person that is beating them.
May 23, 2015
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