More About Coercive Control
Why women are most likely to be victims of this type of abuse and why they stay By DomesticShelters.org In our continuing Q&A with Lisa Aronson Fontes, PhD, author of…
What is Coercive Control?
A Q&A with author, activist and professor Lisa Aronson Fontes, PhD By DomesticShelters.org The book, Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship, is written for people in controlling…
Abuse That’s Hard to Recognize: Coercive Control
Intimate partner abuse that is often disguised as love By Lisa Aronson Fontes, PhD Isolation. Threats. Humiliation. Sometimes even physical abuse. These are the weapons of coercive control, a strategy…
Will My Partner Be Violent After I Leave?
How to predict violence after leaving an abuser By DomesticShelters.org We know that leaving is the most dangerous time for a domestic violence survivor. Abusers often lash out in an…
4 Tips To Get Kids Back to School Safely After Abuse
How to ensure kids are physically and emotionally safe at school after experiencing domestic violence By Shelley Flannery You recently escaped domestic abuse with school-aged children, and now it’s almost…
How to spot gaslighting: 6 things that gaslighters say to manipulate you
By Ashley Laderer Gaslighting happens when an abuser tries to control a victim by twisting their sense of reality. An example of gaslighting would be a partner doing something abusive…
How to Survive Gaslighting
Four tactics for learning to trust your intuition again By Shelley Flannery I know what happened. I’m not imagining things. Am I imagining things? He’s right, I must be imagining…
Gaslighting: Could You Be Missing the Signs?
Psychological abuse so subtle, you may not even realize it’s happening By DomesticShelters.org Gaslighting is a term that describes a type of emotional and psychological abuse in which an abuser…
What Is Toxic Triangulation?
Abusers can turn a survivor’s friends, family and children against them through harmful fabrications By Stephanie Thurrott Some abusers use a tactic called toxic triangulation as one more way to…
Perspecticide: Erased by Your Partner
The harsh reality of "perspecticide" in a coercive control relationship Apr 18, 2016 By Lisa Aronson Fontes, PhD Living with an abusive and controlling partner can feel like living in…