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…
Emotional abuse is a subtle web, which slowly brings the victim under the control of the abuser. All the while, damage is being done internally, with no evidence of visible bruising. Only once control is established does the overt emotional abuse begin. At this point the victim may only start 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…