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The Power and Control Wheel

The Power and Control Wheel, also known as the Duluth Model, was developed at the Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs in Duluth, MN. This tool was created in 1984 by working with focus groups of battered women. After all the stories were told and questions answered they grouped the most common behaviors and tactics used by […]
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This is Abuse?

I would have been the last person to claim to being a victim of abuse. When I shared some of the things I was experiencing in my marriage to co-workers, they never said the word abuse. They agreed I didn’t deserve what was happening, but I don’t remember anyone saying it was abuse. If they […]