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Call It What It Is: Control is Abuse, Not Love
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Control rarely arrives kicking down the door—it slips in dressed as care. That’s the thread we pull with author and advocate Amanda Scott, whose 17-year marriage looked stable from the outside but ran on a quiet currency of emotional and financial abuse. We explore how intense attention, constant check-ins, and money “help” can be early signals of coercive control, and why fairy-tale scripts about rescue and romance make it harder to recognize red flags like love-bombing, isolation, and gaslighting.
Amanda shares the pivotal moment that cracked the…
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