My best friend's boyfriend almost hit her a couple of times recently. He's grabbed her by the wrists and she now has bruises there. Her other friends know about it too, but they won't do anything about it. My friend tries to justify it by saying that he feels really bad about the bruises and, after all, he didn't actually hit her. Although, I really don't see how that sort of behavior can be accepted. She seems perfectly fine otherwise, and she really likes this guy...But I'm really scared that things will get worse for her. The way I see it, if a man has an instinct to hit a woman, that instinct doesn't ever go away precisely because it is an instinct. I'm really worried about my best friend, but I don't want to injure our friendship by taking some sort of action...Especially if things really aren't that bad and she really likes this guy. I don't know what to do...Help?
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