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,…
What is Financial Abuse
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…