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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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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, …
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. …