Power and Control Wheel.7 The Wheel highlights the eight ways a batterer maintains power and control: fear, emotional abuse, isolation, denial and blame, using children, bullying, financial control, and brute force and verbal threats. Advocates point out that abusers don’t walk around with a conscious notion that they’re seeking power and control. Instead, they say things like, “I just want her to be sweet [obedient and subservient] and have dinner on the table at six.” Or, “I just want her to have the house cleaned, and the kids in bed.” Or, “I just pushed her a little. She’s overreacting.”
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