Unwanted physical presence and location-based intrusion

Definition

Appearing uninvited or remaining at the target's home, workplace, children's school, or other known locations in a manner that communicates surveillance, entitlement, or menace, functioning to reassert physical proximity, induce fear, and disrupt the target's sense of safety in ordinary spaces.

How it operates

Showing up at the workplace or residence without legitimate purpose, invitation, or knowingly unwanted. Waiting near entrances or vehicles. Repeated drive-bys or loitering that the target experiences as monitoring. Engineered "coincidental" encounters at locations the target did not disclose.

Function

Reassert physical proximity, induce fear, and disrupt the target's sense of safety in ordinary spaces.

Harm

The invasion of physical and psychological territory.

Why this is coercive control

Court-ordered or mutually agreed exchanges of children at designated locations when conducted within the terms of the order; genuine, one-time accidental encounters acknowledged as such and not repeated. The conduct here reasserts physical proximity, induces fear, and disrupts the target's sense of safety in ordinary spaces.

Constructed example

“The abuser appears outside the target's workplace at closing time and later texts, "Nice to see you leaving. You should smile more.”

Fictitious. Written to illustrate the behavior. Not a case.