Please keep in mind the following definitions as you are using our website. A pattern of coercive control that one person exercises over another. Battering is a behavior that physically harms, arouses fear, prevents a woman from doing what she wishes or forces her to behave in ways she does not want. Battering includes the use of physical and sexual violence, threats and intimidation, emotional abuse and economic deprivation. Unchecked, domestic violence usually increases in frequency and severity.
Many victims suffer all forms of abuse.
Verbal and emotional abuse may be subtler than physical harm, but this does not mean that it is less destructive to victims. Many have said that the emotional scars take much longer to heal than the broken bones. NDVH is a project of Texas Council on Family Violence.