Why would anyone continue to meddle, fix, advise, worry, obsess, or monitor other people's behavior when it makes them and everyone around them miserable? Simply put, they do it to keep their anxiety ...

With OCD, control is a defensive attempt to manage internal anxiety. It usually doesn’t involve intentional efforts to control other people. OCPD, on the other hand, can involve controlling behaviors.

We tend to associate the word “abuse” with more extreme behaviors and actions. However, abuse occurs on a continuum and can take on different forms and morph and/or escalate over the course of the ...

Relationship aggression rarely appears suddenly. Instead, it typically emerges through gradual patterns that can be difficult to recognize, especially when someone is emotionally invested in a partner ...

A recent study published in Sex Roles suggests that the general public often underestimates the dangers of controlling ...