Who’d have thought it? Trinny Woodall (of Trinny and Susannah, “What Not to Wear” fame) is, apparently, giving a public masterclass in Who NOT to Date. – by dating Charles Saatchi, international poster boy for emotionally abusive men 2013, no less.
What can you say?
Trinny is younger, thinner, and possibly more widely known, internationally, than […]
How do you start over after an emotionally abusive relationship when you don’t know how to start over? How do you find the courage to leave an emotionally abusive husband when you’re too frightened to leave, due to fear, guilt, or shame? How do you get over the hurt that, as an emotionally abused woman, […]
Your emotionally abusive partner, has probably left you with 2 abiding beliefs – both of them false, and potentially harmful to you.
The first is that, really, he has the makings of a Wonderful Man. But, somehow, the Wonderful Man seed inside your emotionally abusive husband has spawned a mutant Horrible Man bush. Still, with enough […]
How do you deal with setbacks?
Having a relationship with an emotionally abusive man means that you’ve had plenty of setbacks to deal with: including rejection, humiliation, criticism, blame, accusation, being made to feel worthless and unlovable, and much more besides. But what I want you to focus on specifically is: how do you deal with […]
An email landed in my Inbox this week that made me think.
The writer was a man. He began, as male readers often do, by challenging the fact that I routinely speak of emotional abuse victims as ‘she’, and emotional abusers as ‘he’. He felt that his suffering – as a victim of emotional abuse – […]
“I used to be a feisty, confident woman. But Mr Nasty has left me feeling small, frightened, and powerless”, one emotionally abused woman said to me this week.
Ain’t that the truth?
An emotionally abusive man has a real talent for pulling the rug out from under your feet, does he not? Before we meet Mr […]
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 […]
Over the next 5 days, I'll send you some lessons and tips that I've found have really helped women to heal from narcissistic abuse. Starting with the basics.
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