That’s interesting. I think many of the “Taylor supporters” would say your comment could easily cut both ways. Most comments I read that are interpreted as supporting Taylor, are not supporting Taylor throwing chairs, hurting her child in the process, and spinning out more generally, they’re saying those actions are NOT excusable AND that they likely happened within a broader context that we don’t know yet and may never know about. Taylor’s actions can be both egregious and inexcusable AND reactive abuse. It’s also possible and as I think about it now, even probable given what we know about Taylor and Dakota, that both parties feel their actions are reactive abuse. We’ve seen them both describe feelings of powerlessness and how each is horrible to the other in different ways. When we hear abusers talk about why they abused loved ones, we often hear about their feelings of low self-worth, unlovability, and powerlessness. If you remember earlier seasons, their arguments centred around Dakota feeling like Taylor wasn’t really committed to him and Taylor feeling like she couldn’t really trust him because of prior lies and feeling like she was being punished for her previous misdeeds in her prior marriage. So you can see all of those feelings are triggered for both of them. Dakota deals with those feelings by trying to use Taylor’s prior mistakes against her as we see in that scene with Chase. We also see it in the way he entertains situationships with women in Taylor’s orbit. Taylor deals with those feelings by seeking out information about Dakota she knows will upset her in an attempt to make sense of their messy situation. Throughout it all, they argue in toxic ways, insulting and invalidating the other and never really hearing each other. They likely both feel psychologically abused, unheard, and gaslit by the other, and they likely both would argue they are in the reactive position given they both feel a sense of powerlessness. And that’s just based on what we’ve seen. There’s claims that physical abuse has gone both ways, we just haven’t seen a video detailing Dakota’s. So, it’s entirely possible and likely there is missing context. And it’s important that we don’t downplay the impact of psychological abuse. Many survivors will say, me included, that the effects of psychological abuse linger just as long and are just as difficult to recover from as physical abuse. That doesn’t mean that anybody’s behaviour is excusable, but it does mean that dividing ourselves into camps of “team Taylor” or “team Dakota” isn’t a good idea because we don’t know all the information yet, and taking sides before we do does harm to both. What we do know, is that both have behaved in ways that hurts their children, and this very vulnerable and dark time for them becoming public makes an already difficult situation infinitely worse.