Crystal Fedeli

Listen on Spotify → Listen on Apple Podcasts → ABOUT THIS EPISODE Financial coercive control often begins within a relationship, but its effects frequently intensify during separation and the early stages of family court proceedings. In many single-income households, one partner earns income while the other performs caregiving responsibilities that make that income possible. When separation occurs, that economic interdependence does not disappear. However, access to the marital income can...

Listen on Spotify → Listen on Apple Podcasts → ABOUT THIS EPISODE Financial coercive control often begins within a relationship, but its effects frequently intensify during separation and the early stages of family court proceedings. In many single-income households, one partner earns income while the other performs caregiving responsibilities that make that income possible. When separation occurs, that economic interdependence does not disappear. However, access to the marital income can...

Listen on Spotify → Listen on Apple Podcasts → ABOUT THIS EPISODE In this episode, Crystal Fedeli speaks with sociologist Dr. James “Jim” Ptacek about coercive control, survivor entrapment, and how institutional responses shape the options available to individuals experiencing abuse. While financial coercive control is often understood within intimate relationships, this conversation explores how those dynamics extend beyond the relationship itself and into the systems survivors turn to for...