A charity supporting survivors of domestic abuse held a summit for professionals last week – exploring the many complicated ...

Things were almost too good to be true when Lucy met her now ex-partner. But over the course of their relationship, she says he began using coercive control and physical violence against her. However, ...

About a month ago, I blogged about the first reported Appellate Division decision since the Domestic Violence statute was amended, to include consideration of coercive control when considering the ...

Control varies relationships from mild, codependent control, to abusive to coercive control. Learn to identify the ...

Are we still blaming victims for not leaving their abusers in 2025? The recent verdict in the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial indicates we are. Didn't we all see the same 2016 video footage of Diddy brutally ...

As the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs continues, expect to hear more terms and conditions related to allegedly abusive relationships. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of those terms you might ...

Coercive control is a pattern of abusive behaviours used to hurt, scare or isolate another person within an intimate partner relationship, in order to control them. It is recognised as a form of ...

The article explains that traditional domestic abuse laws focus on visible violence, missing coercive control—psychological and financial abuse that leaves no scars but is equally harmful. New York ...

“I had sex with him last night because I was scared not to.” Those were the words of a woman shaking at the other end of a Zoom call with me. As a divorce coach, I’ve heard this many times before — ...

It is long-standing law in Massachusetts that the best interests of a child govern custody disputes. Said another way, when parents cannot agree and the court has to make custody and parenting time ...

As the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs continues, expect to hear more terms and conditions related to allegedly abusive relationships. Combs was arrested in September 2024 at a Manhattan hotel and was ...