A North Carolina couple was arrested after reportedly hitting each other repeatedly.

 The man approached authorities while at the hospital and told them that he had punched his wife in the face. The man told police that him and his wife had been fighting all day and tensions rose after they were drinking in a bar. He claimed that his wife had also been hitting him and he was just trying to defend himself. The wife claimed that her husband also did not mean to hit her and that he was just trying to defend himself.

She said that she was very upset and stressed about her mother being in the hopsital and that this was the reason for the figthing. The couple was arrested for criminal domestic violence and both were taken to jail.

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