I am posting this link and the some of text from the site because it in may be helpful to people who may not recognize the methods abusers will use. I have been in a seemingly perfect relationship where verbal abuse evolved into physical violence when I started to pull away from the relationship. While getting help with the DV and stalking, information was shared with me that I had to receive after being physically assaulted,and it was then that I knew I had missed or ignored all the signals and signs along the way.