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8 total sentences available.
That man is abusive trash who's lied in circles over and over again. We have no reason to believe that this isn't just more emotional manipulation. I've seen this exact thing happen over and over again with other abusers like him in different places. Abusers like him use their perceived instability as social capital to keep their trust and good faith alive long after it's been crushed again and again by their cruelty and perversion.
Source: tatoeba (3283482)
Perspecticide is often part of a strategy of coercive control that may include manipulation, stalking, and physical abuse. Abusers make their partners narrow their worlds.
Source: tatoeba (7434318)
Once isolated, it is easy to lose one's sense of self. Abusers insist on controlling minute aspects of their partners' lives. Over time, victims internalize the rules and forget what life was like when they were freer to make their own choices.
Source: tatoeba (7434319)
Abusers make their partners feel badly about themselves. Because they are isolated, people victimized by perspecticide begin to believe the negative descriptions of themselves and lose self-esteem. Abusive partners create the expectations.
Source: tatoeba (7434321)
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Closest matches include alcohol abuser, authoritarian, corrupt official, drug addict, oppressor.
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