Shouldering the burden: Sole breadwinner of large family at 20

She wrung her hands and the tears she had been fighting began to flow down her cheeks; her emotional pain was almost tangible.

“I would say it is abuse. It is emotional abuse that is how I feel, it can’t be nothing else,” she shared haltingly.

Karen (not her real name) was not talking about an intimate partner relationship, she was describing the relationship she has with her extended family.