Emotionally abusive partners seek power and dominance. They use different methods of control to keep you entangled and stuck.

It doesn’t always start with yelling or bruises. Sometimes, it begins with subtle control—disguised as concern. A comment about what you’re wearing. A slow chipping away at your confidence. An apology ...

New research shows how abusers engineer emotional attachment to keep partners from leaving. Here’s how love can be used as ...

Gaslighting is a form of manipulation where an abuser, like an employer, bends subjects to their will by distorting their ...

Perpetrators used emotional connection to create a sense of closeness early in the relationship, later using it against their ...

Emotional abuse isn't as easy to spot as physical forms of abuse, which may complicate arguments as the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs continues. Among several other accusations of physical and sexual ...

Emotional abuse rarely announces itself with obvious cruelty from the beginning. Instead, it creeps in through seemingly minor behaviors that gradually escalate over months or years. By the time ...