What defines domestic abuse? Survivors say it’s more than assault

It was, at first, the kind of dreamily romantic attention that Cori Bush craved. She was 19 or so, barely making ends meet working at a preschool, and a new boyfriend was spooning on affection. He lavished her with gifts, too. “He would spoil me; he would spoil my friends, my sister — whoever was near me,” she said.

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