I used to work for an attorney who practiced family law. We had one client who was in the military ... tall ... in shape. His wife beat him. I don't know how long he had withstood her physical assaults on him but he finally decided it was better for him to get a divorce from her because he was afraid that one time he would respond by hitting her back. I guess he finally had enough.
Tough, too, because they had kids. Sad for kids to be in situations like that ...
I read a post from a man on a men's forum whose ex-wife would slap him awake when he was asleep. There are violent men who abuse their wives. But there are violent women, too. Even if a man is bigger and stronger, he has to sleep sometime and there are knives in the kitchen. Our society takes violence against men as a joke. Back in the 1980's, there was a woman who cut her husband, John Wayne Bobbitt. The information the media told about him did not make him out to be a kind husband, but plenty of people treated that like a joke. But people would take women being mutilated that way much more seriously and it would be considered out of line to joke about such things. There are people who say that it is not possible for a woman to rape a man, too. I would imagine it is quite rare. I can understand women thinking that, but I don't get men thinking that unless they are very old and have poor memories.
But now I am participating in the violence discussion. The Bible tells wives to submit to their husbands. That verse should not make 'domestic violect' pop into our heads. The connection with the curse, the man ruling over her might be a bit more connected, but I don't think it meant that Adam was going to beat Eve since she'd eaten of the fruit and offered it to Adam.