In her new book on domestic abuse, Kylie Cheung quotes one survivor who said, 'I felt if I didn’t vote the way he did...it would really be a physical issue.'
Tawni Maisonneuve, founder of the domestic abuse support group the Purple Owl Project in Toledo, Ohio, has survived several abusive relationships and marriages over the course of decades. At one point in her life, Maisonneuve had worked as a manager in her state senator’s office and was deeply involved in her community as an activist.
Many victims may not even see political coercion from their partners as an abusive act. Maisonneuve attributed this in part to the reality that we still “have a hard time believing emotional and mental abuse occurs,” let alone recognizing political control over a partner as abusive. She finally began to understand her partners’ political coercion of her as abuse when, in 2013, she joined a program that she called “intense victim recovery therapy.
Jeff R., a survivor of domestic violence who grew up in a household with alcoholic parents and family, works with Maisonneuve at the Purple Owl Project. He told me Maisonneuve was his “savior.”“When you grow up in a household where it’s, you have to do it this way or that way or get your ass beat, get belittled—you no longer see the value in your own feelings, your own beliefs,” he told me.
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