One account of serious domestic abuse is the case of a young mom named Siobahan Stevenson. Stevenson was brutally attacked by her abuser who sliced her face open from mouth to ear. Stevenson says that her and the abuser would fight a lot. This points to problable verbal and or emotional abuse. Afterwords he would buy her gifts to "earn" her forgiveness. She always went back to him. This is not uncommon for victims to do they feel that if they stay the abuser might change their ways. When she finally left him he lost his control over her. He found her kicked down her door and slashed her face with two large knives. He told that it was so no other man would love her. This more psychological abuse. Telling the victim that no one else will love them is a threat that abusers use to retain control. This is also common because he feels he owns her and no else is allowed to have. This is a story that appeared in the Mirror.
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