Why It’s So Hard To Leave An Emotionally Abusive Husband

Six weeks into my marriage, I already knew something was terribly wrong – but I couldn’t work out what. Not for the life of me.  couldn’t make sense of it. But the humiliation I felt at his rejections (yes, it had happened more than once, by then) was killing. So, what did I do? 
I did what most […]

“Who will he be, next?”

“How could he do that? Will he ever change?” D. asked anxiously about her emotionally abusive partner. She’d reached the end of the line with him, she said. Like a lot of emotionally abused women, she really wanted to let go, be, be free, and move on. But she couldn’t leave her emotionally abusive relationship […]

Two Conversations, One Revelation

Two clients, that I spoke with yesterday, in the space of two hours, 5000 miles and 20 years apart – what did they have in common? They were both emotionally abused women struggling with the same problem: how to stop feeling so tortured and get their lives back. 
Both are amazing, talented women who have totally […]

Is He A “Humiliator”?

Have you ever felt humiliated by an emotionally abusive partner?  An emotionally abusive relationship really is the high road to never ending humiliation, isn’t it?  And humiliation has a toxic effect on the way you feel about yourself. 
 An emotionally abusive relationship is the high road to ongoing, endless humiliation TWEET THIS
Mostly, you struggle with the humiliation […]