Emotional abuse in intimate relationships
emotional abuse – coercion, humiliation, intimidation, when ne person manipulates another’s emotional state for thir own ends.
Sounds familiar? Emotional abuse, defined this way, is perpetrated everywhere – by police, the state, parents, even by friends and intimate partners (boyfriends, girilfriends, etc.). If not growing up in emotionaly abusive households, most everyone in this culture is schooled in how to emotionally fuck up ourselves and everyone around us. So it’s a given, then, that emotionally abusive relationships are very common,