An emotionally abusive husband will make your life a living hell. You’ll come to dread a certain look on his face, the silence that means he’s incubating another outburst, the sound of his key in the front door. He’ll create an unsafe environment where you know the next attack could come at any moment. He’ll […]
Yesterday saw a strange piece in a UK tabloid about Amanda Holden, a UK celebrity talent show Judge. It contained all sorts of seemingly inexplicable statements, including this about her initial response to her first husband, comedian and actor Les Dennis:
“I thought he was a bit of a miserable sod. The more I got to […]
Did your emotionally abusive partner blame you much? It’s almost a silly question, isn’t it? Blame is such an integral part of emotional abuse. Better questions might be: “What did he blame you for?” and “What didn’t he blame you for?”
If you’ve ever been in an emotionally abusive relationship, you’ll know – though you may […]
Most people just don’t get what an emotionally abusive relationship does to you. They tell you to leave your emotionally abusive partner. From where they stand, on the sidelines, it’s very easy to think clearly, and offer ‘good advice’.
They feel very comfortable stating what’s obvious to them. No matter that’s it’s not obvious to you, […]
Picture this: you’ve stayed in your emotionally abusive relationship until it got so bad that you had to leave. It took you a long, long time to reach the decision, and stop blaming yourself. But the day finally came when you realized that your husband was emotionally abusive, and you knew you had to do […]
Boundaries are not the strongest suit of emotionally abused women. In fact, they could well be the weakest one.
It’s not that emotionally abused women don’t know they should have boundaries – you can talk as knowledgeably about the need for boundaries as the next person. It’s just that you don’t know how you could […]
What are the effects of verbal and emotional abuse? It’s hardly the first time I’ve been asked that. Still, it’s always hard to know how best to answer. Not because it is a difficult question to answer, but one of the key effects of emotional and verbal abuse is this: it feels so overwhelming that […]
What do you need to know, in order to get over all hurt and the pain that you’ve been through in an emotionally abusive relationship?
The trouble with being in agonizing pain is this: all you can think about is:
“How do I make the pain go away?”
So, you do the best you possibly can […]
Yesterday, my first blog post for Domestic Violence Awareness Month led one reader to comment: “That was the best thing that you have ever written, that I have read to date.” No pressure, then! 🙂 Other comments from my Facebook page suggest that one topic that interests readers is the effects emotional abuse has on […]
October is Domestic Violence Awareness month, and I’ve spent the past few days wondering whether or not to blog for 30 days about the topic. A special woman I met a few days ago made that decision for me. Here’s what happened:
I was sitting in a favorite restaurant of mine, enjoying a sublime meal with […]
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