Abuse takes many forms. Narcissists are extremely destructive and anyone who has been involved with a narcissist has been abused, by definition.
Gaslighting, emotional abuse, financial abuse, sexual exploitation, all can be insidious, but leave victims in shreds. Once the victim escapes, she’s like a fugitive from a mind-control cult.
Dems are managing the Ellison disgrace with their customary level of hypocrisy.
One key requirement for becoming a lib is that you must have an extraordinarily high tolerance for cognitive dissonance.
I saw it in the marriage of a former high school friend of mine.
I watched what being married to the man had done to her. She was a different person: beaten down. Eventually, fearing her suicide, I took steps, after watching as a bystander for two years, and after consulting with an attorney.
That prompted retaliation. He forced her to move with him and the children into the hills to get away from all outside support. She did not then have the will to fight him. He threatened her with legal actions, and lied to her about the various laws.
Fortunately, she met a new and unexpected source of help, and got out after two more years; I had no contact with her during that period. (She indeed considered suicide, I later learned.)
This husband illegally dissolved their IRA; sicced the Sheriff on her and lied under oath to get full custody so as to avoid child support; declared individual bankruptcy which left her holding the bag of debt.
I never entirely trusted him, although I resolved to give him the benefit of the doubt, but most people in our church - yes, church - fell for his blandly harmless and friendly act. I was alone in seeing him as he was for a long time (even she was not fully on to him, since his gaslighting was so effective).
Before his full perfidy was exposed, I was denounced in the church community as a meddler. (I was on the church staff throughout this time.)
This woman home-schooled all four of their boys, devoted herself to being an excellent homemaker, and absorbed the mound of debt he left because she refused to lie as he had. He convinced the boys, and the courts, that she was a bad mother.
To say it was appalling and heartbreaking is an extreme understatement. She was a more devoted mother, and a more dutiful wife, than most women I have known, inside or outside of the church.
That was long ago. Her boys are now grown, and three of four still avoid any real relationship with her.
The damage done to her and her children, and to her relationships, was enormous and irreparable.