What is domestic violence?
The perpetrators of domestic violence, especially tho who inflict psychological or emotional harm to their intimate partner or another family member can often confuse, manipulate and gaslight the victims into dismissing the harm, or in other cases, believing that they deserve the ill-treatment. Persons involved in domestic violence often follow a know a known pattern - they can be charming, sweet, and apologetic at one instance and abusive in the next instance. On this front, experts emphasize that if domestic violence or a threat of violence has been employed by a person once, there is an extremely high probability that they will do it again. Domestic violence usually gets worse over time, increasing in both frequency and severity. It is vital to be on the lookout for red flags. Although it is difficult to predict what can set off these episodes, a usual pattern is as follows - Parties observe a build-up of tensions and ruptures in communic...