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I Just I Date Jerks, Period.
"There's two slightly different groups. It's just so much more abusive than I had ever really thought to imagine because I didn't put a ton of thought into it," she says. "If emotional abuse showed up as scars on a person's face or body, we'd be calling 911 constantly." California is the only state in the U.S. that formally recognizes coercive control but there are no laws set up for this kind of relationship.