Why should being emotionally/mentally abusive to your spouse be a crime?

I have never heard of someone going to jail for emotional abuse, but this is a reason for people actually getting divorce, usually on the divorce papers people must state why they want the divorce and they will say it's because of emotional abuse, so your statement is not really accurate. And when parents abuse children emotionally they might turn out rebellious, insecure, or even commit suicide or turn to drugs, because of a low self-esteem, so there really is much more to emotional abuse than just between 2 people.

lol, so you think someone who would abuse you throughly and aggressively even threaten your life a few times as ok to just walk throughly in society and redoing this kind of disgusting act towards plenty of their partners? Many abused victims would tell you that they'd take a punch over the mental crap any day. I used to be a bulimic, so I understand emotional abuse (even if I was the one who was abusing myself), it's not fun and anyone who does this to someone else should face the law. People can be seriously traumatized from such abusive relationships.

A healthy relationship is about supporting and loving your spouse, how is emotionally abusing them a proof of such love and affection? By your logic "My question is even if it is abuse why the hell is at made a crime by law, atleast once you already have the option of divorce and quit.", rape within the sanctity of marriage shouldn't be a crime either because hell, you can divorce the bloody fu*ker. If you're mean enough to abuse someone, than you should face the full wrath of the law that'll punish you.

Well, there are conditions in which a person can be emotionally/mentally abused - constant harping on one theme is one (nagging), up to and including non-physical threatening. An excellent example of that is when you are disagreeing with a cop who wants to roust you wrongfully for running a red light (bad hair day, need to make quota, scoreboard with the boys/girls back at the station - hernh-hernh, I got fifteen guys today for jay-walking and you only got fourteen - and he/she, without actually threatening you, intimates that if you don't agree with them, you'll cop it.

Such things can apply to both sides of marital relationships - The Boss here is much more prone to leap to physical and non-physical threats to get her way than I am - I just go on strike. (Aside - did you know that, these days in NSW, if you exercise passive resistance by simply not co-operating, you will be charged with 'resisting arrest'? Get it straight, Pilgrims! Oppressive society! Individual has zero rights!).

So yes - it does exist, but I guess it's just a bit hard to prove (since when has anything The Guv wanted 'proven' ever been hard in a court here?), so it's not on the statute books. Just in DV court, where the sage judge nods while biting the pillow for PC by blithely accepting any suggestion that it may have occurred - but only when that suggestion is offered by a woman. DV court wasn't intended to be fair, you know!

It's NOT a crime. Where is it crime? Where on this earth can someone be convicted of "emotionally abusing" their spouse and go to jail? Or even pay a fine for it?

Where is this place? It is certainly not the US.

Its not a crime.

Nowhere in the Criminal Code of Canada is emotional or mental abuse to be found.

But the results are just as devastating - if not more - than physicial abuse.

You sound like a schoolboy bully in the schoolyard taunting a victim with "Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me!"

*sticks out tongue*

It's not a crime, but it is morally reprehensible, to emotionally abuse your "loved" one.

It's not a crime. There is no law stating it as such. No one can be sent to jail for it.

NOT A CRIME.

You have to understand the mind set of Liberal and Feminist type groups. They believe that if you are unable to influence behavior. Then you have every right to legislate it. Following the law out of fear is not the same as living by the law out of conviction.

I was about to answer but then I got to pissed to. No offense.

You're very young, aren't you - ?