Your Life With Emotional Abuse

How longong have you spent in your emotionally abusive relationship?  Months?  Years?  Decades? 
Time collapses in an abusive relationship, doesn’t it?  After a certain point of misery, you hardly even notice the time passing.  
Strange as it may sound, a day in an emotionally abusive relationship may feel like an eternity, yet a year or five […]

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Top 10 Excuses for Settling for an Abusive Relationship

1)     “It’s not all bad.”  Well, no!!  He’s too good at what he does not to know that every so often he has to play Mr Nice Guy.  But what’s the ratio of good to bad?  And what do  his mood swings do for your mental, emotional, and physical, health?
2)     “It’s […]

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“It’s only me!”

Last week we looked at why you stayed in an emotionally abusive relationship when it went off track.  It happened, not least, because you lacked an internal compass.  
What happened when your emotionally abusive relationship started heading south, at speed?  
Because you didn’t have an internal compass, or sense of direction, you clung to the […]

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Can a man be guilty of domestic violence, […]

What happens when you “settle”?

What happens when you “settle” – by which I mean, when you tolerate the first big upset in your relationship? 
I’d like to illustrate what happens, with a story – my own – and an image that may well make sense to you. 
Early in our relationship, the future wasband staged a rehearsal, a mini-tantrum, a small […]

Why you shouldn’t hurry ‘Love’

As I write this, I’m sitting here grinning to myself.  A quick flick through the morning’s papers states that a study by Cornell University reveals “Relationships that start slowly are more satisfying in the end”.  Couples who waited longer (6 months +) to become physically intimate, generally, are more likely to enjoy lasting happiness.  
Why should […]

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