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Grooming in Relationships: How Abusers Manipulate Their Partners
Grooming is often associated with child abuse, but it’s also a tactic employed by abusers in adult relationships to gain power and control over...
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How Domestic Abuse Victims Rationalize Their Abuser’s Behavior
Victims of domestic violence frequently find ways to rationalize the abuse they are enduring, sometimes as a coping mechanism, other times because they believe...
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Economic Abuse Examples: Survivors Share Their Stories
Economic abuse is a deeply insidious form of control within domestic abuse, often going unnoticed but having profound consequences on the victim's financial independence...
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Projection Explained: How Abusers Shift Blame to Maintain Control
Projection in abusive relationships is a defense mechanism where an individual shifts their own undesirable traits, emotions, or behaviors onto someone else. It’s a...
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Breaking Free from Narcissistic Abuse: One Woman’s Journey of Emotional Healing (Video)
In a heartfelt video, a victim of narcissistic abuse shares her story of enduring 24 years of emotional and mental torment from her husband....
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Reactive Abuse or Reactive Defense? How Mislabeling Harms DV Victims
A recent case involving Paula, a woman married to a Metropolitan police officer, raises critical questions about the nature of coercive control, gaslighting, and...
Stories
The Web of Abuse: A Personal Account
It is that spark of vulnerability, that something that allows for the connection to happen, the meeting of the emotional stars. It may seem...
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Why Alcohol and Drug Use Doesn’t Explain or Excuse Domestic Abuse
One of the most persistent myths surrounding domestic abuse is the belief that alcohol or substance use is a cause—or at least a reasonable...