Annie Kaszina Is divorcing an emotionally abusive husband the right thing to do? asks Lauren, thereby summing up the dilemma of every emotionally abused woman.
No emotionally abused woman that I have ever worked with has woken up one day and thought, “How about divorcing my emotionally abusive husband? That should be fun.”
Divorcing an emotionally abusive husband is […]
Can an emotional abuser ever change – the question deconstructed
Can an emotional abuser ever change? asks Marie. It’s a perennial question that I have already touched on. But that’s not Marie’s real, big, burning question. The real underlying question – the one that feeds her Hopium Addiction – is “Can my emotional abuser ever change?”
Her […]
How do you break the cycle of emotional abuse? Especially when a big part of your self-worth is still invested with your abusive (ex) partner?
Over the years, the majority of abused women that I’ve worked with wanted to break the cycle of emotional abuse. However they struggled to cut off contact with him, not least […]
How do you know if you need emotional abuse help? It should be blindingly obvious. However, when you live in an abusive relationship, everything becomes shrouded in an impenetrable emotional fog. At best, you have a dim perception of what should be true – and what is, doubtless, true for everyone else.
So, just in case […]
Just suppose there were 7 hidden rules of an emotionally abusive relationship. That would go a long way to explaining why so many good, intelligent people get hooked into exactly the kind of relationship they really don’t want.
The statistics tell us that 1 in 4 women will undergo domestic violence. Chances are that significantly understates […]
“How do I move on from an emotionally abusive relationship?” is just about the most important question you can ever ask yourself. It beats hands down the other common end-of-relationship questions like:
“How could he treat me that way?”
“Will I ever be able to trust again?”
“Is it really all my fault?” and
“Will I live to regret […]
The 7 real mistakes all emotionally abused women make are not the faults they blame themselves for. Abused women blame themselves for everything that goes wrong in the relationship.First off, it’s important to understand that every woman who has been in an emotionally abusive relationship is programmed to blame herself for,
Things that are simply NOT her fault
Alleged […]
Why women stay with an emotionally abusive husband long after they should have left is a mystery to the people who stand on the sidelines looking on. Onlookers cannot understand what drives a woman to keep on giving a toxic relationship chance after chance, in the hope that it will mutate into something beautiful.
Even those […]
Unfortunately, the 16 ways to spot an emotionally abusive man are not nearly as widely known as they should be. If they were better known, then many women would likely walk away from danger early on. Instead, a lack of awareness, in society as a whole, leaves women unnecessarily vulnerable. Worse still, it is the […]
The 14 signs of emotionally abused women was not something I had given any thought – at least until I came across The 13 Characteristics of Adult
Children of Alcoholics. It made for interesting reading – even for someone, like me, who was not the child of an alcoholic. It struck a chord with me. Alcoholism is by no means […]
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