Emotional Abuse is Domestic Violence

"Without fanfare or even notice, the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women made significant changes to its definition of domestic violence in April. The Obama-era definition was expansive, vetted by experts including the National Center for Victims of Crime and the National Domestic Violence Hotline. The Trump administration’s definition is substantially more limited and less informed, effectively denying the experiences of victims of abuse by attempting to cast domestic violence as an exclusively criminal concern.

The previous definition included critical components of the phenomenon that experts recognize as domestic abuse—a pattern of deliberate behavior, the dynamics of power and control, and behaviors that encompass physical or sexual violence as well as forms of emotional, economic, or psychological abuse. But in the Trump Justice Department, only harms that constitute a felony or misdemeanor crime may be called domestic violence. So, for example, a woman whose partner isolates her from her family and friends, monitors her every move, belittles and berates her, or denies her access to money to support herself and her children is not a victim of domestic violence in the eyes of Trump’s Department of Justice. "

**Artical from  Slate.com
By: Natalie Nanasi
January 21, 2019

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/trump-domestic-violence-definition-change.html

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This. This makes me so Angry.

So hurt.

EMOTIONAL ABUSE IS A FORM OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

When NO is not accepted it is rape.
When your oppinion is not ever acceped and ignored it is wrong
Your No is NO. Then that isnt accepted that is abuse.
When you feel intimidated or belittled my your partner it is abuse.
When you are torn town on a daily basis and your work not aknowleged, and all the flaws constantly pointed out, that is abuse.
When you are constantly monitored and you have to ask permission for every little thing, "so you don't make them mad" that is abuse.
Name calling is Abuse
Unreasonalbe Financial Monitoring is Abuse
Gas lighting is a form of Abuse, when they make you feel that you are what is wrong, that you are at fault. That is Abuse.
Controling where you go, who you speak to and what you wear is Abuse.
Pushing your partner to participate in events or positions they are not comfortable, and telling them they will do it. NOT accepting your NO is Abuse.

THESE are are forms of emotional abuse, a Form of Domestic Violence.

People don't talk about it, and it is hard to acknowledge it when there isnt physical bruse.

Just because I don't have a scar for you to see doesnt mean it didn't happen. There shouldn't be a Felony, a broken Bone or brusing for it to be recognized.

Thank you for making it 100%harder for Women and Men like me to realize they can leave, that what they have been through is not okay, and they deserve better. That people acknowledge what we  went through is hard, sad, and heartbreaking but real.....