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Tasmania’s leader in promoting gender equality and addressing family violence to benefit the whole community.
Family and Sexual Violence Alliance Panel 2024 - Advocate for Change Ellie
In this speech, Advocate for Change, Ellie Bedells, highlights the intersections between family violence, sexual violence, and child sexual violence. Ellie's speech is part of the Family and Sexual Violence Alliance panel held at the Parliament House in Hobart on the 11th of September 2024.
Ellie calls attention to the fact that child sexual abuse and family violence are intersecting, co-occurring, and cyclical. She explains that her adult experience of family violence entangles with the lingering impact of childhood sexual abuse, perpetuating a cycle of trauma. Consequently, she calls for any support, awareness, prevention, or intervention to reflect this reality.
The Family and Sexual Vio...
Ellie calls attention to the fact that child sexual abuse and family violence are intersecting, co-occurring, and cyclical. She explains that her adult experience of family violence entangles with the lingering impact of childhood sexual abuse, perpetuating a cycle of trauma. Consequently, she calls for any support, awareness, prevention, or intervention to reflect this reality.
The Family and Sexual Vio...
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Engender Equality
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Engender Equality provides a free, specialist family violence counselling service for anyone in Tasmania who has experienced family violence - at any time during their lifetime. The most important message that we have for victim-survivors is that - when you come to Engender Equality - we will believe you. We'll believe your story, and we'll walk with you on your healing journey. www.engenderequ...
Candlelight Vigil 2023 - Advocate for Change Caroline
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Victim-survivor Advocate for Change, Caroline, spoke at the Candlelight Vigil in Ulverstone, Tasmania.
Candlelight Vigil 2023 - Advocate for Change Ally
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Victim-survivor Advocate for Change Ally spoke at the annual Candlelight Vigil in Launceston Tasmania.
Advocate for Change Deborah - 16 Days of Activism 2022 Launceston
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Advocate for Change Deborah Thomson speaks at the closing day of the 16 days of Activism 2022 in Launceston, sharing her insights and recommendations for supporting victim-survivors of gender-based violence. For more information on our Advocates for Change program please go to our website www.engenderequality.org.au
Advocates for Change Taylor - speech for 16 Days of Activism 2022
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Advocates for Change victim-survivor Taylor spoke at the 16 Days of Activism in Devonport Tasmania on 27th November, 2022. Taylor shared the responses to her disclosures of family and sexual violence and gave advice to the community on how to support victim-survivors.
Advocates for Change Taylor - speech for Candlelight Vigil Ulverstone 2022
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Advocate for Change Taylor spoke in May 2022 at the annual Candelight Vigil in Ulverstone Tasmania, honouring those who have lost their lives to family and domestic violence. The Advocates for Change are a group of victim-survivor advocates who are trained in media advocacy, public speaking and other advocacy for the prevention of gender based violence. To find out more about the program please...
Advocates for Change Caroline - speech for Candlelight Vigil in Ulverstone 2022
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Advocate for Change Caroline spoke in May 2022 at the annual Candelight Vigil in Ulverstone Tasmania, honouring those who have lost their lives to family and domestic violence. The Advocates for Change are a group of victim-survivor advocates who are trained in media advocacy, public speaking and other advocacy for the prevention of gender based violence. To find out more about the program plea...
Advocates for Change Tess Moodie - speech for Candlelight Vigil in Ulverstone 2022
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Advocate for Change Tess Moodie spoke in May 2022 at the annual Candelight Vigil in Ulverstone Tasmania, honouring those who have lost their lives to family and domestic violence. The Advocates for Change are a group of victim-survivor advocates who are trained in media advocacy, public speaking and other advocacy for the prevention of gender based violence. To find out more about the program p...
FLP CONFERENCE 07 Dr Torna Pitman
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Watch Dr Torna Pitman unpack the experience of coercive control in this thought provoking presentation at the 2021 Family Law Pathways Conference 2021.
Family violence and COVID 19
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In this video Alina Thomas, CEO of Engender talks about the changes to family violence due to COVID 19 over 2020. She also unpacks the methodical acts and pervasive systems that are designed to silence victim-survivors and the issue of family violence as a whole.
Three Minute Thoughtcasts - Why Do They Do It?
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In this short video Dr Torna Pitman tackles the myths about why abusers behave the way they do, revealing that control and entitlement are more likely to be driving factors than mental health problems or past mistreatment.
Three Minute Thoughtcasts - Emotional Abuse
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The term 'emotional abuse' describes a pattern of interference, subjugation and rejection that over time erodes the victim's sense of self and self-worth.
Three Minute Thoughtcasts - Psychological Abuse
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In this short video Dr Torna Pitman explains how psychological abuse can be used to undermine and dominate the victim, forcing them to doubt their own reality.
Three Minute Thoughtcasts - Verbal Pressure and Abuse
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Abusers often use continuous verbal criticism and analysis of their victim as a control tactic.
Three Minute Thoughtcasts - The Cage of Coercion
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Three Minute Thoughtcasts - The Cage of Coercion
AASW Presentation on Conversational Control and its links to Coercive Control
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AASW Presentation on Conversational Control and its links to Coercive Control
Three Minute Thoughtcasts - Conversational Control in Action
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Three Minute Thoughtcasts - Conversational Control in Action
Three Minute Thoughtcasts - Conversational Control
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Three Minute Thoughtcasts - Conversational Control
Coercive Control: Transformation, Healing and Recovery - Episode 10
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Coercive Control: Transformation, Healing and Recovery - Episode 10
Coercive Control: The Post-separation Challenges and Consequences - Episode 9
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Coercive Control: The Post-separation Challenges and Consequences - Episode 9
Coercive Control: The Impacts on Children - Episode 8
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Coercive Control: The Impacts on Children - Episode 8
Coercive Control: The Stages - Episode 7
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Coercive Control: The Stages - Episode 7
Coercive Control: The Effects - Episode 6
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Coercive Control: The Effects - Episode 6
Coercive Control: The Styles - Episode 5
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Coercive Control: The Styles - Episode 5
Coercive Control: The Tactics - Episode 4
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Coercive Control: The Tactics - Episode 4
Coercive Control: The Dynamics Continued - Episode 3
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Coercive Control: The Dynamics Continued - Episode 3
Coercive Control: The Dynamics - Episode 2
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Coercive Control: The Dynamics - Episode 2
Coercive Control: What We All Need to Know - Episode 1
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Coercive Control: What We All Need to Know - Episode 1
Abuser just love psykiatric diagnoses because it silences the victims
Wow thank you
I have to put a vote in for men who are coercively controlled by their narc wives- if a man is an empathic responsible man who wants to please his wife and has shame issues around anything and resources she wants- he can start out trying to cooperate with her- and the fact that he isnt"afraid" of her works against him because people believe he has more of an ability to leave- but hes decevied gaslit used to being unhappy or in some level of greif- and I believe he then goes into an escapeism- its different than what happens with women and may feel less severe- women have the same attidunal issues- i think she abuses the children while he escapes- and most men/most people want to believe women/mothers wouldn't abuse their children
Gang stalking is coercive control on steriods- using cooperatve others to help the abuser using multiple avenues-
Thank you this was so helpful. So insightful. It’s good to be able to break down all the confusion and lay out the pieces in a clear way. It’s good to know that there are others who understand.
I remember distinctly that a week after I gave birth to our son, my ex changed like he hit a switch. Up until that moment, I had several red flags that I completely missed and excused away.
Men I want you to listen to the language used in this video …. Women are always the victim and never the perpetrators of coercive control. This is the cult of feminism
It’s a few days before the November 2024 election in the US. I am listening to this series to help me cope with Donald Trump and his minions because they want to completely put their boots on the necks of girls and women again.
I’m so hurt I don’t know if I can keep taking it No one cares No one believes me I can not even talk and ppl think I’m on drugs and I’m not The ongoing legal ambushes making me look like the worst mother ever It’s ongoing child protection issues
Your videos always make me feel much more aware when I woke up guilt tripped, beat for religion, stalked yet again by men who like rapists to have rights, women to live in submission, church and sale of my body as a she-slave to people I don't like because I have my coercive control reasons, my trips to the hospital when I call someone a pervert (checking me into psych) look like something I'd never like to relive. I have to listen to them constantly as I've been murderously oppressed to the point where i cannot drive, use a bike and have to "shower with god - so he can watch me take a shower" and crazy made about situations to the point of suicide and blackouts with pills much more accessible than would normally be. I appreciate this as sick as my psychobabble sounds - I've fallen (whether on accident or having my leg kicked out while walking intentionally) to the point of breaking bones and fractures of important bones like hips and that form of deadly violence is just a small reminder of coercive control. It's by far WORSE. It's enough to be worse than imprisoned in your home by a man with entitlement issues who treats you as badly as ariel castro treated his hostages - or Jim Jones shooting at his defectors. It's the worst thing you can experience. EVER.
I love your work, but why use Dr Phil. Unsure whether his contribution is really helpful in the long run. Just some food for thought.
Great talk thank you and thank you to the comment section who continues the conversation while providing knowledge
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This is what I experience with my father he's very double standard, disrespects me & he doesn't want to be treated how he treats me , feel like I'm constantly walking on eggshells around him , he's very neglectful , greedy , narcissistic, loves gaslighting & playing mind games, twisting my words , feel like damn if I do or damned if I don't. He causes my health problems like diabetes, ashma, insomnia, depression, anxiety, inherania disc in my chest .
Thank you so much for these videos. I was so badly gaslit that I now automatically gaslight myself and convince myself that I am just exaggerating or that it was all in my mind. I need to watch or read content about this type of abuse regularly so that I don't slip back into blaming myself for everything and letting my abusers voice control my thoughts. 😔
Friends and bosses at work do all of this also.
I hope everyone in the world watches this series.
You can bet your life this will be a man only crime only men will be guilty of this idiotic one sided law
I wonder if this dangerous ridiculous law will treat women the same as men as purps as it will men I would not bet my.life on it .the loonies are taking over the asylem
This was my married. This series is amazingly informative and very useful for someone who has been through this kind of abuse. I wish every therapist on earth could watch this and get an understanding for this kind of abuse. The scariest coercive control is the kind that is almost invisible to the outside world. Where the abuser is seen as the stable, rational one.
These videos are a joke. They are 180⁰ the opposite of the truth and reality. Maybe 50 years ago men acted that way, not any more. Women are responsible for 99% of all child abuse and neglect these days. Maybe the last generation was full of abusive men. Not this generation. I dont want to hear about it, my generation has been forced to pay for the sins of guilty men, women, and of all white people of the past. It falls on our shoulders, not yours women, you carry no weight and act like you do. You dont. Women abandoned their children for an office job and act like that isnt a massive violation and betrayal in the eyes of a child. It is. Your job is to be there for your kids, yet, women neglected that role to be a "boss b*tch". Mens role was to provide, they kept doing their job, despite women actively neglecting their role. Now adays men provide, we teach, raise, educate, protect, and do everything, women have completely switched to just being the abusive dad of the 1950s. There is no difference, youre just as entitled but the guy in the 50s actually paid the bills and did his role. Women fill no role, like I said, they work in an office, thats their main role, to be a step and fetch it for a random guy then they tell themselves this is liberation from oppression. Its a joke. Men arent the delusional ones, we arent the gas lighters, we dont have the power to do anything. Women learned from those abusive men of past generations and are currently engaged in that abuse. The character assassination, false accusations, removal of our voice, extreme exaggeration of events, rewriting of history, triangulation, I can go on and on. Women take their children from their father, then spend 18 years indoctrinating them in to hating their father based on feelings, not fact. Women took away all of my generations rights and created an environment where its ok to denigrate, humiliate, devalue, lie, manipulate, and shame us, then they expect to be rewarded for that behavior. Men have a lose lose situation, only then do women call it equal. Ha, yeah, were equal alright, after the government came in and put a gun to our heads, took away our rights, and threatened to take our kids, gave women 100% leverage above us and no accountability. You get paid more than men to do less work, work less hours, less stressful jobs, less dangerous jobs, its safer to be a woman, women dont go to jail, they are less likely to be assaulted, murdered, and raped (yes thats true, more men are raped than women when you include prison) the world bends to womens whims these days, not mens, and the world is falling apart, that is not a coincidence. Im from a generation of boys, raised by mysandrist women, educated by mysandrist women, in a world that favors and privileges women over men, the bar for women is lower than that of men, yet you get 10x the reward for 1/10 the risk and effort. No culture has ever tolerated, forget rewarded such suicidal, self centered, narcissistic behavior. Men already adapted to this new world, we are in touch with our emotions, educated, experienced, we can provide, protect, and fulfill all of the old roles AND we can raise, shape, nurter, educate, discipline, and encourage our children BETTER than women. Its not men that need to improve, its women. A woman from 1960 had more experience, skill, grace, tact, strength, and mental fortitude than any woman alive today. Women have gone backwards, are less capable of dealing with life on lifes terms, they complain constantly, expect the world to pander to them, lack humility, the only thing theyve gotten better at is contriving fake scenarios in which they are perceived as the "boss b*tch". We see through your facade and it will come crashing down. My generation will not marry until the laws reflect actual equality, our voices are represented, and we are given the respect we earned. We are the valuable ones, every woman these days is good looking, only 1% of men have what it takes to be a good man. We worked hard for that distinction and I would never risk that for a woman who can just make up false accusations and ruin my life because I wasnt interested. The past 20 years have exposed womens weaknesses and you are trying desperately to hide them, but we see you. You will not talk your way out of this
Watching this makes me sick. But the only past it seems to be through it.
Can a woman indulge in coercive control?
Thank you. Victim blaming among psuedo "therapist" types is rampant. Slaves didn't choose what happened to them, women didn't, and children certainly don't. Someone abusing you and having power over you is very socioeconomic based and we don't choose or have control over perpetrators or trauma.
Thank you very much! God bless you
Well it's official I'm not getting in a relationship, dating to dangerous for women these days.
Ugh! I feel physically sick and my head is pounding as I listen because not only was my last partner like this but also my father and mother's relationship was like this. Even tho I "know" it in my head, here I am with the same awful situation. My mother never found the courage to leave or even heal her life patterns, but I am here and I want to grow and become healthier. I want better for my life. Thank you for these videos, this behavior is so incredibly subtle and disabling.
God bless you! I wonder how we can populate this information more, so more victims can access it and be educated. This is a masterpiece! Thank you so much!
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Hi, thank you for your videos, very clear. I'm really interested in this Subject, how can I get in touch with you?
That's exactely what I am going through. Thank you for the information
Very insightful. In Vanuatu women do face this coercive control a lot in their home but can't speak up because of our so called "kastom" and other related reasons . Some perceive it as normal. 😢 Slowly with all the awareness and laws against these abuses, people tend to understand these issues and try to better manage within the communities.
As you mentioned yes it is important to understand these dynamics that "we educate, prevent and protect people people for being trapped by à coercive controller"
Thank you SO much for this series! It is so valuable.
A lot of guys want their mate to make $. Both my friend and myself found jobs that were flexible. Unfortunately our employers clawed back benefits so that we had to get babysitters and our narcissists wouldn’t change their work hours. Mary and I would drive together because our rattletraps would break down. My narc loaned my car to his friend.
Over time I came to think that the Narcissist drank to make himself feel better about who and what he is. Alcoholics get sloppy and then you can tell what they are planning. I have 2 friends left, so I keep them hidden
The first stage was believing he liked women. Gentle behavior belying rage and payback to his stepmother and stepsister. He played me like a Soap Opera. I didn’t leave because I wanted to raise my children. His employer provided free legal services. And I never had a bruise and I couldn’t prove NPD
Thank you for the information. Getting it out is huge, sometimes more for the community than the victim, in that someone is the coercive controllers next target. There was no binding/bonding, no love bombing that I detected (apparently, I'm hard to bomb-LOL), no attraction on my part, nor did I feel there was much commonality (socioeconomic background, education level, social, religious and spiritual compatibility, cultural or physical compatibility, shared interests) nor any romantic, physical or affectionate overtures, there was simply fundamental friendship, mostly due to randomness. Enter narcissistic delusion and extreme gravitation toward codependency. Houston, we have yet another problem. Instead of casual friends for a brief season, there seemed to be psychotic dreaming. Some of these videos are limited in application for me at this juncture. One thing is needed for me to get out of everyone's hair. Happy to do it. Super simple to accomplish, but I can't do it alone, nor should I be left vulnerable to the coercive violence that crazy narcissists have directed at me because they love to take advantage of someone who was royally screwed in a public divorce, by my ex, his .org and the lawyers involved, especially smear, isolation, and financial ruination, which boast extremely devastating and dangerous long-term effects if not resolved in a settlement. My entire life has been unrecognizable for 16 years, post-narcissistic spousal abuse and an incorporated, highly networked ruination campaign (lots of money invested and flying monkeys on the take). There are more risks for everyone in leaving this undone (obviously myself, but also, lawyers, ex-spouse and his kingdom, family members, and potential future victims of syndicated ruination/exploitation tactics, which are becoming more common). Practical application is harder to come by than education and enlightenment at this point.
Your content is amazing!
My ex fiance went crazy when I answered a voicemail of a male friend from 2 yrs prior he listened to our convo on speaker. Told me not to wear make up and was a complete control freak crashed our car on purpose and would drive aggressive fighting with me. More warning signs I was trauma bonded but I went no contact
This is my ex husband to a tee. I am grateful for my healing 🙏 ❤
I know that most co-ercive control is perpetrated by men against women, but it is important that, though far less common, it is recognised that women can also be the controller.
Oh my goodness, thank you so much for this video. It's exactly how my ex wife was, and my sister, and my last ex, and at least 4 of my female managers / leaders over the years and one male manager. It's a pity you talk in terms of gender and missing the other half of abused people .. oh, and same sex couples (especially F/F, highest rate of IPV) .. it would avoid further victimizing them. You see it very clearly .. but just missing the point that it's not gendered.
Thank you for your brilliant content. I have five adult children. Two of them sadly collude with my ex husband and have a very poor relationship with me, which I hope will improve in the future. Those two daughters almost worship him, but my research on trauma bonding helps me to make some sense of it.
I can't explain just how shocked and thankful and validated (reeeeeeeally val-i-da-t-ed) I feel to hear this exact description of my 27-year life experience and 25-year marriage to the father of my 17 year-old children (what's left of them). I am an American in Berlin being absolutely decimated and terrorized by a highly intelligent, masterful manipulator in his home country. I was so confused, belittled, and shamed (largely by what I NOW know is s manipulation tactic: silent treatment. I now know PAINFUL longing I had was trauma-bond longing, pining, addiction.) I was, over time, inculcated to believe I was a worthless piece of trash, (ashamed of my existence) who should be grateful anyone would put up with me, let alone occasionally be nice to me. He'd say: "I'm the best friend you will ever have" "You're not allowed to be a victim". A lot of his devaluation started after a year of professional losses in 2010-2011... Since learning about m tactics I now see examples even prior to our wedding day, but on my wedding day I, personally, was absolutely convinced I was marrying the love of my life and had no doubts whatsoever. Oh Lord... I had no idea. However, I almost left him in our second year of marriage. He was doing crazy s*** with my brain. I couldn't take it anymore and decided to him.. I went back the next day to get my bags and pack. But he took the day off of work and convinced me to stay, saying: "Don't leave! Whatever you do, Before you think about even leaving, you can always talk to me. You know that just talk to me! Just talk to me if there's ever a problem!" -which, I realize now, was complete gaslighting, blame-shifting, and future faking manipulation (because he was refusing to talk to ME.. giving me creepy silence..silent treatment. But, then, to win me over, he made it seem like *I* had not chosen to talk with him. ( It's his classic blame-shift tactic which I did not know about as a manipulation tactic. Absolutely brilliant blame-shift. He is a brilliant manipulator). I do not recall having any major other attempt to leave the relationship or any super apparent problems in terms of his behavior toward me other than remote incidences, which I just dismissed because "everyone has arguments"... But what I didn't understand is that we never resolved the arguments. People have arguments, but they come to resolution and they discuss them. But that's not how it works with him. But I had what I considered to be beautiful first 12 years of marriage.... But after he had his 2010 professional crisis He stopped looking at me quite a lot. It was silent treatment but I didn't know that's what it was. And he refused to have any sexual intimacy with me. He was having a rough year at work so I thought that was the reason why... then his dad died and I thought that was the reason why.. there was always a reason why I made the excuses for him -because he was refusing to talk to me about it. Telling me, "I'm good. everything's fine don't worry. I'm good." It's just occurring to me now that he would not say, 'i'm okay', but rather, " i'm good" over and over "I'm good".."I'm good." Which stands in stark contrast to what he was saying to me. Starting in 2012, he routinely blurted out, "you're a bad person!" at me often in front of my children when i was having fun with them. Of course, I protested at the beginning. But that only got me to more trouble - Ridiculed for being too sensitive not able to take a joke.. And so I just learned to live with him making this ridiculous sarcastic "joke" --not knowing that the repetition of this joke over and over is damaging... and took hold in me and, of course, the message - And hundreds of other things he did, hundreds of eye rolls he shared between the children both in front of my face (and, i'm sure, and behind my back), eroding my children's bonding with me and their trust in me . He also says this 'you're a bad person" phrase to the kids and they also learned to laugh when he does it. He has said that phrase alone maybe 1 a week...hundreds of times probably 500 times over the past 10 years. my email to him from 2012 says: "you can't keep joking "You're a bad person" we have children!! That's my marker for when it started... Though I wrote him to stop doing it, he kept saying it and I was conditioned not to protest because it only escalated the situation. I did not know he was mentally ill. There's no way in hell I would stayed with him if I knew he had a personality disorder or knew anything about manipulation tactics. It's only after learning about manipulation and personally disorders. That I believe that my dad was also the same as my husband. Or should I say that my husband iss the same as my dad. And that's why I felt comfortable with him, "familiar". Why on Earth are these things not taught in school along with STDs????? Just tell people about silent treatment tactic and gaslighting and blame-shift and intermittent reinforcement trauma-bonding cycle of violence tactic ... those 5 things alone that alone might save people's lives! narcissistic abuse is FAR more dangerous and painful than an STD. The touch deprivation and repeated silent treatment I experienced was sheer torture. I was watching my boy-girl twins children suffering (not understanding it was the product of his identification projections! his effing mental abuse of them). I did not understand that he was enjoying watching us suffering. Enjoying seeing us get agitated. How many times I had to literally break down to get him to go to our son's room ...our son waiting for him... A son who had "nighttime anxiety" not because he was afraid of the dark but because he could not fall asleep without his dad's permission. I now understand that's what's going on! Only his dad could tuck him in. And we're talking about a fifteen year old boy.. . It was only when he was in his teens that I started to bring it up to a child psychologist. My husband insisted there was no problem and denied my son therapy. The doctor just went along with my husband and I just assumed that I needed to trust the doctor not understanding the doctor was being used my husband also, as a regulatory object. He was belittling me in front of this doctor to puff himself up and the doctor believed him over me one hundred percent of the time. And myself worth was SO low, I did not know that this was an indication of abnormal proportions He has control of the family narrative even with a trained psychiatrist. it is so sick.
What about men
When so many mothers have no choice but to represent themselves, the burden of research seems insurmountable, yet I am immensely grateful to you for publicly providing the information because abuse and risk of violence is hard to prove. A woman's intuition doesn't hold up in court, but the pattern of those double binds fits with my experience and is provable through the court's very orders. I have some emails and texts and can refer to the language and dynamics there to prove risk in staying, whereas I can't prove that the perpetrator is the one who tampered with my vehicle and so on. Oddly, even court documents reveal language that aids the coercive control, for example, in the case of a dispute regarding visitation, the result would be a reduction in my time with the child. The court chose to automatically assume me responsible and punish me by default. I want to remind women out there, that you can leave for another state with your children and be heard in another court citing UCCJEA emergency jurisdiction. Thats all we have protecting us currently. I have also heard of prospective legislation called the Safe Child Act. Someday, we'll get there.
In my opinion, coersive control can happen also in parent-child combination. My mom was nice when I was under 10 years old. The real hell started when I needed to geiw independent. Little by little their terrible trap revealed to me: their gifts were not gifts but debt that I am not able to pay back - expect by sacrifying my life: not allowed to have a boyfriend, not allowed to get married and gave my own family, manipulated to choise an iccupation of ny father and go to work to his company - so tgey can control also my incomes. It has taken decades to me first to figure out the system, realise it and all these decades I have fought desperately to get human rights! In Scandinavia! Nobody has helped me- they are a „nice family“, be thankful! And yes: my main feeling has been that I have no other choise tganbto kill myself. I have nothing in this life. Now, I have cut all contacts and start to feel better - also finally find information that this kind of hell excists! It is not my imagination! 58 years wasted life behind. 😢
Take heart, my ancestors moved from Scandinavia and enacted this fresh hell into the New World as well. Play acting like we are so free and have all these rights. Not at all like oppressive woman hating cultures. I may as well have been born in Saudi Arabia under a dictator family. And the women folk were no different from the men but helped hide the rot. 😢
Never accept to be isolated and dependable on other peoples money. That is, in my opinion, the protection number one.
Shared children is the most dangerous and most common strategy.
I didn't accept it. I protested. I pushed. I got an education in spite of intense sabotage. I created my own company. But I still ended up without a job, severely ill and burned out. Mostly because of the toll that his covert, insidious emotional abuse had on me cumulatively over a decade, without me or anyone else realizing it. I understand you, and I agree that being financially dependent/ tied to anyone is a big risk. But very often in a relationship such as this, it is definitely not a choice made with consent, or that one knowingly accepts. It is more like being ensnared over years of being broken down, having your boundaries, values, needs and opinions stripped away without you noticing.
Could have used a power-point presentation at various stages of this discussion to break up the focus on the presenter.