[Yuki]

Originally Posted by johnny

If someone wraps you up so completely that you go into a coma without them, and you start sobbing and thinking your life is over when they're not there, that's a form of abuse. It's co-dependency. It's making it so the person needs you, thus controlling them emotionally and mentally.

Not all abuse is physical or verbal. If you get into a relationship with someone who's trying to control what you do, who you hang out with, where you go, that is abuse. And that's also exactly what Edward does in the books, only it's flowered up and meant to sound like "love".

This is how I understood it too, even though I haven't actually read any of them. Edward's like a Muslim big brother. lulz