[donotrun]

My wife does family law and emotional abuse seems to be quite well defined by the law here. Most reasonable persons know when they are being abused and takes steps to correct it or remove themselves from the situation. The problem occurs when one party knows about the others person propensity to abuse and yet decides to pursue the relationship. Abuse is bad of course but it takes two to make that scenario work.

In my case I did not know I was being abused, constantly ignoring a person is abuse among other stuff and I did not know that, also I only knew this person for a very short time and all his family members covered up for him really well. I did not have to be abusive towards him for him to start abusing me.