Your Partner Doesn't Need to Hit You to Control You

A demand to answer every text. An argument whenever you see your friends. Small rules you follow because you know what happens when you don’t. Then suddenly, affection—and hope that things will change. What happens when you stop looking at these moments separately and start seeing the pattern? In How Abuse Becomes Control: Biderman’s Eight Methods of Coercion, Through the Eyes of Survivors: Uncensored explores isolation, monopolization of perception, induced exhaustion, threats, occasional indulgences, demonstrations of power, degradation, and enforced t… Video by YouTube channel.