BINGO!!!
A while back, I did a year of volunteer work with an agency that served families who had experienced abuse and/or neglect.
During my initial training, by an experienced, female social worker; I learned that researchers in that field classify abuse as three types - physical, sexual and emotional
The shocker was that, when researchers interviewed people who had been victimized in all three ways, the victims invariably said that the emotional abuse was the worst of the three. By far.
Emotional abuse is more the purview of females than it is of men. And it can be deadly. plus, there are certainly women who are abusive physically and/or sexually.
No one likes to talk about the problem. But it is real. And it is common.