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Coercive control is a form of family violence. Coercive control is when someone uses patterns of abusive behaviour against another person. Over time, coercive control can create fear and take away the victim's freedom and independence. Examples include: • controlling who a person sees, what they wear and where they go • monitoring or tracking everything a person does • controlling a person's finances, medication, food or exercise • regularly criticising or blaming a person, so they doubt themselves and their experiences • forcing someone to have sex or do sexual things • stopping a person from following their religion or cultural practices • threatening a person, their children, family manipulating co-parenting arrangements or child support payments after relationship separation. People experiencing coercive control may feel like they're walking on eggshells, or that it's difficult to disagree or say no. They may not know they are being abused.