Assertion: victim's control | /r/HasProperty | the house
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text: Official statistics state that it takes an average of 35 assaults before an abuse victim will tell anyone - but judging from the many women I have heard from over the years, that is a vast underestimation - most have spent years if not decades with a violent and abusive partner and have done their best to 'control' the house, children, his moods, their own selves in such a way as to minimize the violence or frequency of assaults.