In fact, the National Domestic Violence Hotline (2020) has reported that abusers are using the COVID-19 crisis as an excuse for isolating domestic abuse victims from friends and family.
According to the California District Attorney’s office (2008), domestic violence involves or may include: physical abuse, repeated psychosocial abuses, social isolation, intimidation, or economic coercion.
Whether you are dating, married, or in an “intimate” relationship, you may become a victim of domestic violence.
Whether the perpetrator is using intimidation, making light of the ill treatment, or shifting responsibility, saying, for example, that the victim’s behavior caused the violence, these are all examples of abuse in relationships.
The goal in any domestic violent relationship is to stop the violence and control your own behavior.
