Your Life on the Misery-Go-Round

Life with an emotionally abusive man is rather like being chained to a Misery-Go-Round. 
Is there such a thing? 
You bet there is.  It’s just that nobody has ever put a name to it before.  
I remember a particularly beautiful merry-go-round  that my daughter used to love.  She’d sit on it with a shining face, hating it […]

How I Became A Weeble

Have you ever felt like a weeble?
Being in an emotionally abusive relationship does nothing for your belief in you’re ability to make good decisions, does it? If you could fall for, and stay with, an emotionally abusive man you have cause to question at least some of the decisions you’ve made.  
The fact is, you […]

Your Life With Emotional Abuse

How longong have you spent in your emotionally abusive relationship?  Months?  Years?  Decades? 
Time collapses in an abusive relationship, doesn’t it?  After a certain point of misery, you hardly even notice the time passing.  
Strange as it may sound, a day in an emotionally abusive relationship may feel like an eternity, yet a year or five […]

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Top 10 Excuses for Settling for an Abusive Relationship

1)     “It’s not all bad.”  Well, no!!  He’s too good at what he does not to know that every so often he has to play Mr Nice Guy.  But what’s the ratio of good to bad?  And what do  his mood swings do for your mental, emotional, and physical, health?
2)     “It’s […]

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“It’s only me!”

Last week we looked at why you stayed in an emotionally abusive relationship when it went off track.  It happened, not least, because you lacked an internal compass.  
What happened when your emotionally abusive relationship started heading south, at speed?  
Because you didn’t have an internal compass, or sense of direction, you clung to the […]