Asking for a friend: ‘My partner got really angry and hit me. They apologised a few days later but now keep telling me I just need to get over it’

Q: I can’t even believe I’m writing to you, but I feel desperate, and I don’t know what to do. A few weeks ago, my partner got really angry and ended up hitting me. I know they have been going through a lot of stress lately, and they hadn’t ever hit me before. They said sorry but it was a couple of days later, and they said it in such a way that made me feel like I was the one being dramatic about it. They told me to get over it since they apologised. I don’t want to tell you the rest of what happened because I don’t even know how to talk about it. It’s too painful, and I feel like if I start talking about it, I will have a nervous breakdown.