He hits her because she is his to hit.

He forges her name because her money is his to take.

He tells her to know her place because her place is his to assign.

It is all one crime, the crime of ownership, and the bruises and the forgeries are merely its different symptoms.

And I have come to believe this is why freeing someone from abuse requires attacking the ownership itself, at its root, in every form it takes at once — which is exactly what that binder did.

It did not only expose a fraud.