Women’s Emotional Abuse Recovery

Why is my partner emotionally abusive like that? is one of the key questions that emotional abuse survivors ask themselves.  The question presupposes that there are only two possible explanations as regards the reason why a partner is emotionally abusive like that. 
Why is my partner  emotionally abusive like that? Explanation #1. Because he is […]

Will counselling help with emotional abuse? That is a question that women frequently ask.  It is a question that goes right to the heart of the problem that victims of emotional abuse face.  Here’s why:
Before you ask will counselling help with emotional abuse
Before you can begin to answer the question will counselling help with emotional […]

Is divorcing an emotionally abusive husband the right thing to do? asks Lauren, thereby summing up the dilemma of every emotionally abused woman.
No emotionally abused woman that I have ever worked with has woken up one day and thought, “How about divorcing my emotionally abusive husband? That should be fun.”
Divorcing an emotionally abusive husband is […]

Can an emotional abuser ever change – the question deconstructed
Can an emotional abuser ever change? asks Marie. It’s a perennial question that I have already touched on. But that’s not Marie’s real, big, burning question. The real underlying question – the one that feeds her Hopium Addiction – is “Can my emotional abuser ever change?”
Her […]

How do you break the cycle of emotional abuse? Especially when a big part of your self-worth is still invested with your abusive (ex) partner?
Over the years, the majority of abused women that I’ve worked with wanted to break the cycle of emotional abuse.  However they struggled to cut off contact with him, not least […]

How do you know if you need emotional abuse help? It should be blindingly obvious.  However, when you live in an abusive relationship, everything becomes shrouded in an impenetrable emotional fog.  At best, you have a dim perception of what should be true – and what is, doubtless, true for everyone else.
So, just in case […]

“How do I move on from an emotionally abusive relationship?” is just about the most important question you can ever ask yourself.  It beats hands down the other common end-of-relationship questions like:

“How could he treat me that way?”
“Will I ever be able to trust again?”
“Is it really all my fault?” and
“Will I live to regret […]

The 7 real mistakes all emotionally abused women make are not the faults they blame themselves for.   Abused women blame themselves for everything that goes wrong in the relationship.First off, it’s important to understand that every woman who has been in an emotionally abusive relationship is programmed to blame herself for,

Things that are simply NOT her fault
Alleged […]

Unfortunately, the 16 ways to spot an emotionally abusive man are not nearly as widely known as they should be. If they were better known, then many women would likely walk away from danger early on.  Instead, a lack of  awareness, in society as a whole, leaves women unnecessarily vulnerable. Worse still, it is the […]

The 14 signs of emotionally abused women was not something I had given any thought – at least until I came across The 13 Characteristics of Adult
Children of Alcoholics. It made for interesting reading – even for someone, like me, who was not the child of an alcoholic.  It struck a chord with me. Alcoholism is by no means […]