In all my years of experience as a coercive trauma specialist, I have never met a survivor whose finances were not devastated by the coercive control perpetrator in their life. Most people believe that leaving an abusive relationship is the beginning of independence. In reality, for most survivors, it is anything but. Because the perpetrator who controlled your bank account,…
Economic Abuse
Narcissistic abuse is not a single act. It is a subtype of system called coercive control. The system operates across multiple dimensions of a person’s life simultaneously. A survivor may be experiencing emotional manipulation, financial control, and digital surveillance at the same time, each reinforcing the others to create a form of entrapment that is much harder to name and…
Financial abuse is a tactic used by one person to gain power and control over another through the deliberate manipulation of money, assets, and economic resources. It can take many forms – from controlling a person’s access to their own bank account, to forcing someone into debt, to stealing money outright. It may be subtle and incremental, or overt and…
Economic abuse is a component of coercive control. It is a behavior that typically occurs over time. Furthermore, it follows a clear pattern of actions. To understand economic abuse, it is necessary to recognize the perpetrator’s underlying goal. They seek to gain power and control over another person. This is accomplished by forcing the recipient of the abuse into a…
As autumn settles in, we enter a season that relationship coaches and survivors know well: hobosexual season. As the air turns crisp and the cost of living climbs, a particular type of opportunist becomes more active — the charming, plausible, emotionally fluent man who is looking not for a partner but for a host. While the term may raise a…