The cycle of domestic violence and abuse includes emotional abuse, isolation, blaming the victim, denying that abuse even occurred, minimizing the effect, making joke or laughing away that the victims takes things too seriously, using children or pets as means to expand threat if the woman takes action, invoking religious laws and requirements, reducing access to friends or resources, coercion, threats, and intimidation. Physical violence is a part of that cycle.

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