Transcript
Although people of any gender and sexual
orientation can be either victims or
victimizers of abuse and coercive control, I’m
using pronouns that describe the most
common situation here: of a straight,
cisgender man abusing a straight, cisgender woman.
One of the biggest tricks we play on ourselves is to convince
ourselves that the way to win is to exert more power; exert more will;
do it on our own. But sometimes the only way is to admit defeat and
to get the help we need.