How do you start over after an emotionally abusive relationship when you don’t know how to start over? How do you find the courage to leave an emotionally abusive husband when you’re too frightened to leave, due to fear, guilt, or shame? How do you get over the hurt that, as an emotionally abused woman, […]
Your emotionally abusive partner, has probably left you with 2 abiding beliefs – both of them false, and potentially harmful to you.
The first is that, really, he has the makings of a Wonderful Man. But, somehow, the Wonderful Man seed inside your emotionally abusive husband has spawned a mutant Horrible Man bush. Still, with enough […]
How do you deal with setbacks?
Having a relationship with an emotionally abusive man means that you’ve had plenty of setbacks to deal with: including rejection, humiliation, criticism, blame, accusation, being made to feel worthless and unlovable, and much more besides. But what I want you to focus on specifically is: how do you deal with […]
An email landed in my Inbox this week that made me think.
The writer was a man. He began, as male readers often do, by challenging the fact that I routinely speak of emotional abuse victims as ‘she’, and emotional abusers as ‘he’. He felt that his suffering – as a victim of emotional abuse – […]
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