Participants reported a wide range of abuse from their male partner, including emotional and verbal abuse, stalking and threats, physical assaults including some that required hospitalisation, and sexual violence. Where their male partner had a gambling problem, he also subjected them to financial abuse to pay for his gambling and gambling debts. The women who had a gambling problem usually started frequenting gambling venues to physically escape their partners abuse and emotionally escape by playing electronic gaming machines. The male partner often used her gambling to justify his violence, which typically escalated with her gambling losses. Most women reported prolonged periods and intensifying cycles of violence, including cumulative…
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