Are You Using <em>Gaslight</em> Correctly?
One rule of thumb can help determine whether the word is being diluted.
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In Victorian London, a husband wants to get rid of his wife so that he can take the valuable jewels she’s inherited from her late aunt without drawing attention to himself. As you can probably imagine, Victorian culture isn’t too kind to women—socially, legally, or emotionally. So he begins to play tricks on her to make her feel crazy, hoping to have her institutionalized, which would give him her power of attorney. Not a bad plan for a conniving, murderous sociopath! He begins by leaving the house for long periods of time without telling her where he’s going.
But the wife has an ally in the home
