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Family & Domestic Violence

Here’s Why Walking On Eggshells Feels So Dangerous

updated on 2 May 202224 April 2022

Emotional abuse is pervasive, insidious, and it’s dangerous. 1 in 5 women and 1 in 8 men will experience emotional abuse in their life. Emotional abuse takes many forms, but what it doesn’t do is scream from the rooftops that it is abuse. The abuser prefers things to be hidden …

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Family & Domestic Violence

5 Coercive Control Signs And What They Mean

updated on 25 April 202218 April 2022

Coercive control is a form of family and domestic violence and abuse. This emotional abuse is a pattern aimed at asserting power and control over another person. Coercive control is targeted and relentless – and these tactics work. Perpetrators may appear to have some undesirable personality traits; however, these behaviours …

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Family & Domestic Violence

Financial Abuse: Warning Signs You Need To Know

updated on 25 April 202213 April 2022

Financial abuse in interpersonal relationships highlights another form of family and domestic violence (FDV). This abuse includes tactics like control, denied permission, limited choices, threats of violence, coercion, intimidation, and fear. Often financial abuse does not occur in a vacuum; it can exist in a torrent of other abuses.   …

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Family & Domestic Violence

Love-bombing: What It Is And What You Can Do

updated on 25 April 20226 February 2022

Love-bombing is a chew you up and spit you out kind of dating and relationship plan. It’s a dangerously orchestrated and purposeful tactic to ‘get’ you. Love-bombing is simply the hook. What comes next — and it will — is the scary part. The intention behind love-bombing is to manipulate the victim. This can come in …

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Family & Domestic Violence

Coercive Control: Relationship Red Flags You Need To Know

updated on 25 April 202220 December 2020

These coercive control tactics are relationship red flags. They are waving like crazy and they are trying to tell you something. Unhealthy relationship behaviours can lead down a slippery slope, and quickly. Often words and actions follow patterns and cycles and can escalate into something quite out of control. But, …

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Family & Domestic Violence

Here’s Why Some Women Don’t Leave An Abusive Relationship

updated on 25 April 202227 November 2020

If you don’t quite understand why a woman does not leave an abusive or violent relationship, you are not alone. This is a complex situation. For women in abusive relationships, leaving is not just a matter of walking out the door. This belief implies choice where often there isn’t one. …

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