Annie Kaszina Last week I messed up.
Not for the first time and, doubtless, not for the last. But it’s still not my favorite activity. When you’ve been in an emotionally abusive relationship, it’s hard to deal with having messed up. Especially when, as last week, it was just public enough to – as I saw it – […]
You’ve been in an emotionally abusive relationship, right? Nobody deserves to go through that much pain. Mr Nasty’s specialist subject was Crime and Punishment – not as in the novel of that name, but simply as in spotting your crimes, and meting out punishment.
The problem is, he was such a natural at it, that what […]
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 […]
Is there a lesson from your emotionally abusive relationship that you might be missing? Let me tell you what I mean.
The thing in my life that nearly – so very nearly – sank me was taking lessons from my experiences: the wrong lessons. The thing in my life that has saved me has been learning […]
“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 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 […]
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 […]
For readers outside the UK, it may be perfectly possible not to know who Charles Saatchi is. But emotionally abused women everywhere have cause to be thankful to him.
Not because he has made a stand against domestic violence.
Anything but.
Charles Saatchi has given the world an appalling display of domestic violence. TWEET THIS
As one of the […]
“I don’t feel emotionally destroyed or damaged by having an emotionally abusive relationship” wrote D. this week.
That’s quite exceptional.
An emotionally abusive parttner doesn’t choose you for your sweet self. He doesn’t think: “I want to be beside this person, to love, nurture, and support her growth.” He’s looking for someone he can control, and possess. […]
Is safety an issue for you? Do you feel safe? Or, do you often feel at risk – emotionally, financially, and/or physically?
If you’ve ever been in an emotionally abusive relationship, let me reassure you: feeling at risk is a normal response to an abnormal situation.
Your emotionally abusive partner has trained you to feel at risk. […]
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