You would think so, and I wish that it was easy. I wish that coercive controllers had signs on their foreheads. However, I think that one of the previous speakers talked about trafficking and sexual exploitation, and really, coercive control in cases of intimate partner violence is no different. It's not like on the very first date someone, you know, begins to control or picks up their fist and hits someone. It's a very slow process. It is low level, and it is persistent. It is a pattern whereby, all of a sudden, one day.... It's a gradual and then sudden process where one day someone wakes up and realizes that they no longer have personal freedoms or are able to make decisions in their own best interest.
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