Emotional Abuse As A Form Of Gender Based Violence 2

This article is a build up to the erstwhile one and its contents are excerpts largely derived from Paul Moglia’s book on Emotional Abuse.

Emotional abuse, like other forms of abuse, occurs in cycles. There are three phases in the cycle of violence:

Phase I -Tension building phase, Phase II – Violence phase, and Phase III- Honeymoon phase. Over time the cycle of violence may change as the honeymoon phase shortens, and the tension and violence phases increase.

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