Boundaries are not the strongest suit of emotionally abused women. In fact, they could well be the weakest one.
It’s not that emotionally abused women don’t know they should have boundaries – you can talk as knowledgeably about the need for boundaries as the next person. It’s just that you don’t know how you could […]
What are the effects of verbal and emotional abuse? It’s hardly the first time I’ve been asked that. Still, it’s always hard to know how best to answer. Not because it is a difficult question to answer, but one of the key effects of emotional and verbal abuse is this: it feels so overwhelming that […]
What do you need to know, in order to get over all hurt and the pain that you’ve been through in an emotionally abusive relationship?
The trouble with being in agonizing pain is this: all you can think about is:
“How do I make the pain go away?”
So, you do the best you possibly can […]
Yesterday, my first blog post for Domestic Violence Awareness Month led one reader to comment: “That was the best thing that you have ever written, that I have read to date.” No pressure, then! 🙂 Other comments from my Facebook page suggest that one topic that interests readers is the effects emotional abuse has on […]
October is Domestic Violence Awareness month, and I’ve spent the past few days wondering whether or not to blog for 30 days about the topic. A special woman I met a few days ago made that decision for me. Here’s what happened:
I was sitting in a favorite restaurant of mine, enjoying a sublime meal with […]
Who’d have thought it? Trinny Woodall (of Trinny and Susannah, “What Not to Wear” fame) is, apparently, giving a public masterclass in Who NOT to Date. – by dating Charles Saatchi, international poster boy for emotionally abusive men 2013, no less.
What can you say?
Trinny is younger, thinner, and possibly more widely known, internationally, than […]
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