Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D., Our official Abusive Relationships Expert says:
Isolation is one of the mechanisms used to create and maintain domination of one person over another.
Evolution of isolation in abusive relationships
It often evolves so gradually that you don't realize it's happening until you wake-up one day and notice you have no friends and your contact with your own family has vanished. Now the funny thing is that as your icy isolation is being groomed, you're conditioned to believe that it is "good for you." (There's that conditioning, again.)
Read Dr. King's entire article Abusive Relationships - How to Recognize and Cope with the Isolation in an Abusive Relationship
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