Lana was a dear friend of mine for 10 years, before the light finally dawned and she – and I – realized my husband was emotionally abusive.
Strange to say, we both discovered what was ‘hidden in plain view’ around the same time.
Lana knew my husband quite well. She was someone he felt the need to […]
Do you ever look at your situation, and ask yourself; “Why am I still struggling with this? Why can’t I just move on?”
If that sounds like you, let me tell you about Sarah…
Sarah couldn’t have been more frustrated and disgusted with herself. She knew exactly what she needed to do: she needed to stop giving […]
That’s a serious question, and one I’d like you to think about for a moment: how do you know who you are? (Most emotionally abused women really DON’T know.) Maybe it will help you if I rephrase it:
How do you get a sense of who you are?
Where does that sense come from?
And who would […]
“Dear Annie, What can you do when you have been out of the relationship a while and you’re on a sort of plateau? Life is better (obviously), and you no longer need to “fight” as much, with yourself or him, but you know you’re nowhere near over it? How do you move on from there?” […]
Burying your hurts and your pain may once have been the best way you had of dealing with them.
If you knew, from bitter experience, that you were not going to get your needs met, and your hurts acknowledged, what else could you do?
Unfortunately,“Feelings buried alive never die” as Karol K Truman rightly observes in the […]
The last 12 days have been the hardest of my life.
It began when my beloved partner was rushed into hospital where he spent 48 hours in Intensive Care, on a respirator, heavily sedated.
We have not been together long – less than three years – and we are not married. But he is my partner in […]
My client was struggling with what she needed to do. She had not one man but two in hot pursuit. One was her ex-partner who – in the way of abusive men – had discovered he ‘truly loved her’ now she wasn’t returning his texts or phone calls any more. The other was her self-appointed […]
The past few days have been monumentally difficult. My beloved partner is in Intensive Care and, for the moment, I’ve had to postpone some private client appointments.
I’d like to share with you a couple of replies I’ve received to the emails of apology I’ve sent.
One said:
“I wish your partner a quick recovery.All the best to […]
“I still don’t understand my own behavior. When my partner started pushing me around physically, I left. Before that, I let him literally run my life! He was emotionally abusive and had HUGE control issues. Yet, I didn’t see his behavior for what it truly was for a very long time. I just coped, and […]
The questioner, Omar Reyes, of www.icansurvivedomesticviolence.com, answers his own question thus:
“I say that you never fully recover. The scars are always there. But there are various strategies that can be used to help you regain your confidence and your self-esteem…”
I disagree with him, on the grounds of my own experience, the experience of the […]
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