Verbal Abuse, Emotional Abuse and Mental Abuse

Verbal Abuse, Emotional Abuse and Mental Abuse

Verbal abuse is considered inappropriate marital conduct if it is persistent and affects the innocent spouse’s mental or physical health. Instances of verbal abuse include false charges of sexual abuse of children, false accusations of adultery, false accusations of incest, and threatening telephone calls. The use of profanity toward the spouse has been recognized as verbal abuse, too. As when, for example, a spouse who incessantly nags her husband about buying fine jewelry and an expensive wardrobe which he cannot afford. When he refuses, she calls him a “penny-pinching son-of-a-bitch” along with other humiliating expletives in the presence of family and friends. A Tennessee court would consider the wife’s actions to be inappropriate marital conduct.

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