Thanks so much for the question.
You'll see in the definition that when it comes to causing a “reasonable” fear of violence, it specifies more than once—so two or more times. The idea of “repeatedly or continuously” was taken from the U.K. bill. The idea is that these are patterns of behaviour. The lived experience of people experiencing them is that they are repeated instances.
It's important that we look at the cumulative effect of intimate partner violence and coercive control, because that is how it's experienced and is often how it's reported as well. They may look small in their individual instances, but the repeated and continual nature of them is part of what makes them so severe in impact for the individual.