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We need to look at what you’re trying to change so you can feel happy and good about yourself.Working with emotionally abused women, I can never fail to notice how they always focus their attention, and energies, on their partner.  If only a woman can heal, or change, her emotionally abusive partner, then she will […]

Getting out of an emotionally abusive relationship is not easy.  Getting over it can be hard, slow, and deliver endless hurts, humiliations, and set-backs along the way.  
That’s how your emotionally abusive partner has designed it.  
Once you become his plaything, he feels he has the right to pick you up, put you down, and […]

We need to look at what happens to you in an emotionally abusive relationship. 
In some ways you don’t need me to tell you what happens; as an emotionally abused woman, you’re living it for yourself.  Chances are, even if you’re out of the relationship, you’re still living with the emotional abuse to some degree.  The […]

Let’s face it, there’s nothing like an emotionally abusive relationship for reducing your head to mush.  You have so many things to worry about, you can’t even work out where to start.  
One of the major concerns I hear is: 
“I’m worried about hurting the children.  (After all, they may just not have noticed they’ve been […]

This week, Misti emailed with the kind of query so many women have when they’re in an emotionally abusive relationship.  Here are her words:
“I’ve been in a relationship for the past three years. It’s been rough. I don’t know if I’ve been emotionally abused though. How do you know when it’s emotional abuse?”  
As I understand […]

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 […]