Abusive relationships are characterized by extreme jealousy, emotional withholding, lack of intimacy, raging, sexual coercion, verbal abuse, threats, lies, broken promises, physical violence, power plays and control games.
Emotional abuse is as damaging as physical abuse, though it is often harder to recognize, and therefore to recover from. Emotional abuse causes long term self esteem issues and profound emotional repercussions for the partners of abusers. Abuse typically alternates with declarations of love and statements that they will change, providing a "hook" to keep the partner in the relationship.
Barry does provide a "hook" to keep Edgar as the relationship begins to deteriorate when Edgar sees Barry with Lana by telling Edgar that he has the mailman's address.
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Detail of beadwork from an Ojibwe medicine pouch
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ohh, this is juicy, rachel. I think that once Barry would have gotten Edgar under his supervision for good that he would absolutely have abused him. When he lashed out and hit the tree, he realized how Edgar felt and knew that if he continued to show his mishaps to Edgar that he'd lose any chance of getting Edgar to live with him forever.
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