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The signs of economic abuse aren’t always obvious, but that doesn’t make it any less traumatic. Imagine you are in a relationship in which your partner unilaterally decides how your combined income is spent or saved, without allowing you to give input. Perhaps they hide bills from you or refuse to tell you how much money is in your shared account, leaving you feeling trapped and powerless. The above dynamic has a name: economic abuse. Economic abuse is when one partner in a relationship controls the other’s access to money and other financial resources, such as car loans or mortgages. But not every economically abusive relationship is the same. Some are characterized by economic control, in which a person prevents their partner from having a bank account or credit card in their name. Others fall into the category of economic exploitation, as when the controlling partner uses the other’s credit without their consent or forces them to sign financial documents they don’t underst
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