... the next step is them killing you.
Read this if you have been strangled by your partner:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/14/gabby-petito-wyoming-strangulation-domestic-violence?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1Vyf-NCsHbTfguNMN6zOksAIStZPnotKMidSB8Qw-47ic8PvzR4h5TpzY#Echobox=1634213667
Important quote:
According to one study, 43% of women who are murdered by their intimate partners had been strangled by them in the past year. Once a woman has been strangled by her partner, the likelihood that he will strangle her again rises tenfold. The likelihood that he will murder her rises nearly eightfold. Because strangulation is a sign of increasing violence in an abusive relationship, and because the act of strangulation is so physically dangerous for the victim, it is usually the last escalation that the abuser makes before he kills her. According to the psychologist Sylvia Vella, who has worked with the San Diego police’s domestic violence unit, women who have been strangled by their partners even once are in a position of acute emergency. “Statistically, we know that once the hands are on the neck, the very next step is homicide,” Vella has said. “They don’t go backwards.”