Sorry, but this just isn't true. I know personally two men, one of whom is my brother, who have been victims of years or decades of Coercive Control. My brother's wife has been physically abusive at times, but more importantly she has followed the classic abuser's path, isolating him first from his family, next from their grown children, and finally from his church. He will every couple of years call me saying he can't live with the pressure, cooker, the constant verbal abuse, but then he always "goes dark" on me, his/their term for cutting someone off.

I have often wondered about the control she has over him, control that has him earning all the income (he's now retired) doing all housework and cooking, all home maintenance and repair, too frightened to call his parents from the home, and not willing to stay in contact with his children and grandchildren without her permission.

I suspect her control is religious. He is a committed fundamentalist Christian and his church does not allow divorce. In any case, these laws should be written, and done so in gender neutral language. Anyone of any gender can be an abuser...or be abused.