Learn how to distinguish between healthy partner disputes and domestic violence. Understand the signs of toxic behaviors, abuse, emotional blackmail, and more.
Someone’s tone rises, a door slams and there’s a heavy and terrifying silence. The next time, there’s a shove; the time after that a slap. Intimate-partner violence can creep into relationships. Limits are pushed bit by bit, and one day, we wake up in the middle of a toxic storm that we don’t know how to escape.
But how do we distinguish between “healthy” partner disputes and domestic violence? How do we determine that someone we love is displaying toxic behaviours? How do we recognize abuse? Emotional blackmail? Humiliation tactics? Control? Bullying? Jealousy? Domestic violence has many faces and knows very well how to hide them. Emotional abuse is often a precursor to physical abuse. And women, for the most part, take the hits. The statistics are depressing: In Canada, femicide is on the rise. According to the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability, one woman is killed every two days and one in three women will experience physical or sexual violence in her lifetim
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