She drives a really nice car and always carries the latest designer handbag. From the outside, it appears that she lives a pampered life. But what people don’t know is that there is no money in that designer handbag because her husband doesn’t allow her access to their bank accounts.
Her neighbors are unaware that her husband checks the mileage on that nice car to ensure that she didn’t go anywhere she wasn’t supposed to.
Most Americans have a clear idea of what intimate partner violence looks like to them. It’s Ray Rice punching his then fiancé, Janay, in the face and dragging her unconscious body out of an elevator. It is the woman hiding her black eye behind a pair of sunglasses. Many are unaware that financial control and abuse are significant parts of the complete definition of domestic violence.
