What do you really learn from emotional abuse? Usually the first thing you learn is the wrong thing; specifically that it’s all your fault. While there are vitally important things that you are much slower to learn – not least that the reason why your partner behaves so badly because he is emotionally abusive. It […]
Are you someone who worries – a LOT? If you do, it’s not helping you. On the other hand, for anyone who’s ever been in an emotionally abusive relationship worrying goes with the territory.
In my time I could out-worry pretty well anyone on the planet – except perhaps another emotionally abused woman. We’ve all earned […]
How do you know when you’re in an emotionally abusive relationship? Most likely, you don’t,- for the longest long time. All you do know is that something is terribly wrong. Unfortunately, nobody has ever taught you to recognise the 7 tell-tale signs of an abusive relationship.
Over time you become more confused , hurt and unhappy […]
Verbal abuse does untold harm – and yet it largely passes unnoticed: you only have to think of that old saying: “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” That was something my father – who was no slouch when it came to using words that, allegedly, never hurt – […]
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