Yes, I think so. I assume we're talking about emotional abuse. Sometimes people might not see it as that, when everybody else does--or maybe the person has just shut down some emotionally, to tune it out. I actually observed three generations of a family who said things to each other that I perceived as very cutting and unkind. But the family members just accepted it as "normal," evidently. And I know they weren't just joking with each other. They were a very dysfunctional group, that's for sure.