What sort of actions do abusive partners take to keep their partners in the relationship?

The abusive partner kept their partner by taking actions like he learned how to over control and manipulates their partner to the point of reliance. It incorporates abusers to kept the victim to get a job in order to produce a financial dependency.  It also compromises the abuser to use warnings and threats of violence in relation to abused children or pets.

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