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 […]
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 […]
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