I experienced emotional abuse with my husband. At the end I didn't know who I was or what I liked. He took my very self away. I would up in a psych hospital and divorcing him. There was a lot of damage to me and it took years to get better from all the emotional abuse. I thought in the beginning it ws no big deal but after some years of marriage I was destroyed completely. He did not want me even reading a book because it took away from our time. The trouble was he never yelled or hit me, and I began to believe it was "me'. I thought I was the nut and I was crazy. He wanted sex all the time and you could not say no. There was just so much. Even thinking about it causes anxiety now and it was years ago and he has since died!