Does your emotional abuser try to prevent you from meeting your usual friends or family members? Does your emotional abuser prevent you from going to your usual places and/or meeting people you usually meet by making excuses or explain reasons why you should not meet certain people?

This pattern of behaviour seeks to prevent you from meeting friends, family members and/or familiar people you used to meet and isolate you from familiar places.  Your emotional abuser is very clever, he/she/them will even sometimes make subtle excuses such as awful weather in the places you are planning to visit and/or meet familiar people to keep you away and isolate you in a divide and conquer manner.  This negative pattern of behaviour will make you totally reliant on your emotional abuser over time as you lose touch with your friends and family members until eventually you won't see the point in visiting familiar places anymore if there isn't anyone to meet any longer, as the parameters of your usual territory becomes smaller and smaller until all that is left is your emotional abuser whom you become reliant on when isolated from everyone else.