[Lawyer] Joseph Cordell, the co-founder of Cordell & Cordell, said women may also resort to a tactic few men employ: accusations of domestic violence. “It could be as little as a shove or a raised voice,” said Mr. Cordell.
One Universal Medicine student, Tamara, objected to the claim that it was a cult, saying she had reclaimed her life from an abusive relationship rather than losing herself to a cult.
It isn't uncommon for the truly crazy person in any relationship (either gender) to try to paint the sane partner as somehow "dangerous" -- women will accuse men of domestic violence against them, men will accuse women of domestic violence/neglect of the kids; both sometimes also make charges of infidelity.
ReplyDeleteQuite often the accuser also does such a good passive-aggressive job of this that they really do destroy the innocent party's life (or at least scar the heck out of it)
Also, and this is ironic as hell to me, the accuser then quite often gets victimized themselves in either some group and/or by some highly manipulative person -- and they wind up staying in that truly toxic landfill of a relationship.
I used to work as a secretary for an addiction center -- teen department (hated the place; don't think they actually helped the kids any, sure kept their own money train going). Anyway, the kids, when they could sneak a few moments, really liked being listened to...and of course being addicted teenagers with a host of other troubles, they liked to talk about themselves and home a lot.
Heard the above scenario quite often.
Hard not to feel sad for those kids, caught in the middle of all that, no wonder they had issues with reality (of one sort or another).
PW
It is a crazy, mixed up world we live in.
ReplyDeleteIn some instances literally any physical contact can be construed as physical abuse. And I mean, ANY contact.
When physical contact doesn't occur then there is the emotional and mental abuse.
What takes top honors today are reports of adults claiming sexual abuse because as children they could hear (thru walls) their parents in the throes of sexual intercourse. My God, the horror of it!
LOL, please tell me that last was a joke. Well, for my own mental health I try to not picture my mom and dad doing the nasty...but I'm pretty much 100% sure they did.
ReplyDeleteAnd while I steadfastly refuse to think about it for propriety's sake, there is no sexual abuse taking place in the facing of reality.
How bloody squeamish we've become!
PW
No joke. I thought it might have been after first reading about it. A little research showed it was not.
ReplyDeleteIt is a product of need... social workers and psychologists with too little business... and there are lawyers to keep fed.