Amy Skaggs’s Reviews > Emotional Abuse Breakthrough: How to Speak Up, Set Boundaries, and Break the Cycle of Manipulation and Control with Your Abusive Partner > Status Update

I like this book because it provides good alternatives for working on relationships, but also takes abuse seriously in that there are steps to effectively leave.

Anyone who is targeted should read this

While dating in my area, it seems that most men want to form a connection by controlling me somehow, whether it's an insult here and there, blatant disrespect of time or anything else, lashing out, threatening me to "shape up" when we went on one date, lol, claiming possessiveness immediately...the list goes on and on. I gave up.

Very good! The patterns are always tactical and identity-erosive, managing a gradual breakdown of the target in the effort to control. BREAK FREE