YOU on Netflix is a study of dating abuse

Netflix's YOU inadvertently highlights a slew of different warning signs of dating abuse and violence. Young women aged 16-24 experience the highest likelihood of intimate partner violence. In just Series 1 alone of YOU  the following red flags and abusive tactics are demonstrated by the key character, Joe:

• Stalking
• Narcissistic tendencies
• Digital abuse
• Jealousy
• Isolation
• Moving the relationship quickly

YOU highlights one of the most unassumingly dangerous types of dating abuse - that of non-physical abuse. Too often we think of domestic violence as hitting, slapping, strangling or shoving. But non-physical abuseis one of the reasons why many survivors don’t recognise it, get deeply entangled with their abuser and then find it difficult to escape, especially when the abuser escalates the abuse from yelling to hitting.
Please note that YOU can be triggering.

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