I haven't watched any of the trial and just read bits here and there but I am really glad that it will hopefully start many more conversations that men can be victims of physical and emotional abuse, too.
If any of you are interested, there is a program on channel 5 catch up, which has a documentary on 3 men (been a while since I saw it) who have been abused by their girlfriends.
2 of them were killed by their girlfriends.
It is a difficult watch but important because there is still so much that needs to be done to encourage men to get help and that there is nothing to be ashamed of either.
I do want to say though, that emotional abuse can be just as damaging, if not more, because with physical abuse, you can see the bruises, but with emotional, it is much more insidious and manipulative and harder to detect.
Although to be fair, physical abuse tends to have emotional going along side it.
I have been in both types of relationship and my last one, which was emotionally abusive because of the coercive control, was so much worse and damaging than the violent one.
You don't have to hit someone, to be an abuser. Emotional abuse is a crime too.