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Raising Awareness of Coercive Control

Coercive Control is abuse where one partner demonstrates a pattern of controlling and manipulative behaviours within a relationship. It is totally unacceptable and, in some places, illegal. This quiz is an attempt to raise awareness of coercive control.

by 1nn1. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
1nn1
Time
4 mins
Type
Quiz #
419,373
Updated
Mar 14 25
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Very Easy
Avg Score
14 / 15
Plays
72
Last 3 plays: purelyqing (15/15), spanishliz (15/15), Kota06 (13/15).
This is to let you know that the kids and I have left. We are not coming back, and I have taken extraordinary steps so you will never find us. So don't try.

You have always being abusive towards me because you never hit me. is visible, but the abuse you inflicted on me was more insidious. is a recent term that describes your abuse towards me. Whatever it is called, it is still . When we were first married, what I thought was your over-protectiveness towards me was just a need to me. Over the years, your behaviour has gotten much worse. In the early stages of our marriage, I feeling that I was swimming against the tide - you made me feel I was the one in the wrong. When I look at all the abuse you have on me, I wonder why I have stayed with you for so long. You gave me barely enough money to cover food, let alone any "extras" like clothes or bus fare. I had to for those. One by one, you me from having friends and my movements so I could not meet new ones. You checked my phone and demanded to know who I was calling and who called me. When you cameras in the house, you said it was for security, but the real reason was so you could keep tabs on me. You gaslighted me nearly all the time and called me horrible names in front of the kids - you tried to turn the kids against me. You told me when I could eat and sleep and even the amount of time I could spend in the bathroom. Our life in the bedroom about what you wanted. Any input on my part was . However, the final straw came when you started threatening the kids, just to get at me.

When you read this note, you will be angry, but for the wrong reasons. You should be angry that we have gone, but you will be angry because, for once, you cannot control the situation. You need to this change and get professional help for your problems. Only then will you to make a fresh start, but it will never be with us. That is in the past. It's over.
Goodbye
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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
Answer:

There are twelve widely accepted signs of coercive control. Not all of them need to be 'present' to make a diagnosis of coercive control. Even one of these signs is unacceptable and a symptom of this form of abuse:

1. Separating you from your support system
By limiting or eliminating contact with friends and family, an abusive partner limits the influence of your support group and increases the control of the abuser.

2. Restricting/denying you autonomy.
An abusive partner may try to limit your independence and freedom by not allowing you to go to work, restricting access to transportation, stalking or installing cameras to monitor personal activity, and monitoring your phone usage.

3. Monitoring your daily activity
This includes having to account for your time and whereabouts, reducing your autonomy.

4. Gaslighting
This is a term from a movie of the same name where an abuser makes you doubt your own truth and experiences (eg makes you feel like you are swimming against the tide). This occurs when the other person insists they are right all the time and changes the narrative of the situation despite any evidence to the contrary. Gaslighting is the manipulation of the truth.

5. Criticism/name-calling
Along with damaging put-downs, these are extreme forms of psychological bullying.

6. Restricting/controlling finances
This not only restricts your movement but also decreases your ability to leave the relationship. It is a major form of disempowerment. Tactics include severe restriction of money for essentials such as food and clothing, monitoring everything you spend, limiting access to bank accounts, preventing access to a credit card, and even hiding financial resources from you.

7. Coercion to complete all domestic duties
Cleaning, cooking and childcare are dumped on one person without any assistance from the abusive partner.

8. Controlling your health and your body
An abusive partner will monitor and control your sleep patterns, eating habits and exercise routines. They may even control access to medical help, medicines and time spent in the bathroom.

9. Making accusations about the time you spend with family or friends
This is a method, either in person or online, of phasing out contact with your life outside the family home, increasing the time spent with the abusive partner.

10. Regulating your sexual relationship
This should be a shared activity with equal input and consensus between two people. In a coercive control relationship, all decisions are made by one person. Lack of consent and sexual assault may occur.

11. Turning your children against you
If there are children in the relationship, the abusive partner may try to weaponise the children against you through belittling the other person, unjust criticism, and telling them you are a bad parent.

12. Threatening your children as a means to intimidate you.
This latter criterion is a bad prognostic sign. It indicates an escalation in abuse. It is used when physical, emotional, or financial threats no longer work as much to gratify the abuser. The abuse then turns towards the children in the relationship, even pets, to increase control over the abused partner.


Giving a name such as coercive control to a range of abusive behaviours has raised awareness of a generally 'hidden', or at least unreported, form of abuse. Increased reporting of cases or coercive control is probably due to increased awareness rather than an increase in activity. However, the incidence is unknown because data reporting is inconsistent and almost certainly under-reported worldwide. Legislative changes at the provincial level to make coercive control a jailable offence have had an unknown effect as a deterrent, as there is little data available.

What is known is that coercive control is a blight on our society and needs to be eliminated. This author doubts that this can be achieved, but by raising awareness of this scourge, collectively we may be able to reduce its incidence.
Source: Author 1nn1

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