There are several reasons why emotional abuse is difficult to identify, even if you’ve seen it before: The strategy is subtle and continuous and woven into every interaction you have with the individual. An abusive event taken on its own, is in fact not abusive. They could just be having Read more
For some reason there is a negative connotation around the word boundary. There is an idea floating around in romantic land that two people that love each other should drop all defenses and be completely open and bare to each other. That makes as much sense as removing all laws Read more
Everyone has good and bad days. No one is perfect. Your partner/boss/parent might have had a bad day, lost control of their emotions and snapped something insensitive at you. Could this be an early warning sign of impending emotional abuse? Or just the normal ups and downs of relationships? No Read more
There are a number of reasons that dealing with emotional abuse is so hard. This is made worse by the gaslighting effect of the abuse, which leaves you confused, or wrapped up into believing some of your abuser’s erroneous ideas about their behavior and the truth of the situation. You Read more
One can have difficulty in recognizing abuse as it isn’t always black and white. For example, there is no argument in the case of rape, beating someone or locking them up in the house. That is straight forward wrong without argument. Shaking your fist or whistling at a girl can Read more