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Helping you identify toxic communication, emotional abuse, manipulation, and other forms of bad behavior in relationships. Love and Abuse gives you the perspective of both the victim and the perpetrator. Full of tips and advice for your friendships, family, love life, and marriage.

You’ll learn about covert abusive communication that takes away your power. And you’ll discover how to pinpoint the specific toxic behaviors, such as narcissistic abuse and verbal abuse, before you are dragged into a game so deep you come out a shell of your former self.

Love and Abuse is the official podcast of The M.E.A.N. Workbook, an assessment and healing guide to help you evaluate the emotionally abusive and manipulative patterns in your relationship. Get the guide that will tell you exactly what’s happening in your relationship over at loveandabuse.com.

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The empty threats that keep the abuse cycle alive

When they threaten to leave or take something away from you, but they never follow through, expect them to repeat that behavior indefinitely. Empty threats are effective on those who fear them coming true. There is a way to stop the empty threats (but you probably won’t like it).

The empty threats that keep the abuse cycle alive
The empty threats that keep the abuse cycle alive
April 30, 2025
Trying to figure out who the emotionally abusive person really is in the relationship
April 15, 2025
When a relationship is not a relationship
March 26, 2025
Don’t lock yourself into a worse situation
March 12, 2025
Why abusive people need to maintain power and control over you
February 21, 2025
Those who hurt you have poor coping skills so give them a break… right?
February 5, 2025
The gradual shift from who you were to who you became in the emotionally abusive relationship
January 29, 2025
The growing resentment that can build when their hurtful behaviors never end
January 8, 2025
Are you the reason someone is hurtful to you?
December 11, 2024
When someone destroys what makes you happy
November 26, 2024
What makes taking a break from the relationship work?
November 12, 2024
When you can barely take care of yourself let alone give them what they want
September 20, 2024
When they shower you with love after they’ve done bad behavior
August 22, 2024
When you decide enough is enough – the first step isn’t the last
July 13, 2024
What change really looks like when the emotional abuser heals
June 6, 2024
Feeling discarded when they leave the relationship
May 22, 2024
When the emotional abuser reaches back out after they’ve healed and changed
April 25, 2024
Time with yourself is not only necessary, its required
April 15, 2024
Emotionally abusive behavior is also physically painful
March 27, 2024
When the good you do for them leads nowhere
March 22, 2024
A clever manipulation tactic that makes you believe you are the problem
March 2, 2024
When you think you’re strong enough to get back into the difficult relationship
February 22, 2024
How emotional abuse can enter your life like an infection
February 14, 2024
If you don’t know your limits, you wont have any
January 5, 2024
When they go silent and emotionally disconnect from you
November 29, 2023
Should you give in to their perception of you?
November 23, 2023
Their past trauma and abuse isn’t the immediate issue in the relationship
November 3, 2023
How do you know when your heart is sealed?
October 27, 2023
Is taking a break before breaking up the final blow to the relationship?
October 12, 2023
How you describe the challenges in your relationship can reveal if youre being emotionally abused
September 6, 2023
Should you make a list of everything they’re doing wrong and hand it to them?
August 18, 2023
Avoid getting trapped into an emotional prison from which you can’t escape
August 1, 2023
What are the chances of an emotional abuser healing and the relationship surviving?
July 27, 2023
Why they don’t stop hurting you when they see you hurting
June 30, 2023
When parents get involved in your difficult relationship
May 5, 2023
Religious Abuse: When they use your beliefs and faith against you
March 31, 2023
When they believe they’ve changed
February 17, 2023
LAA Insights – The kids in between the breakup from the toxic manipulative partner
February 2, 2023
The huge wall the emotional abuser puts up
January 24, 2023
The battles that drain your power
December 22, 2022
What will it take to finally get them to stop?
December 7, 2022
Is just functioning together good enough
September 2, 2022
When you find yourself crawling back to them over and over again
August 2, 2022
LAA Insights – Learning what attracts the hurtful people
July 19, 2022
LAA Insights – Is he right about me being the abuser?
July 6, 2022
Bonding with people that traumatize you
July 4, 2022
Can depression be used for manipulation?
April 20, 2022
The abuser that sneaks their way into your heart and life in order to lock you in to a controlling relationship
March 10, 2022
Can you find yourself after they stop the hurtful behavior?
March 1, 2022
Healthy responses to their frustrations and annoyances
February 3, 2022
The thoughts and beliefs that allow toxic behavior to seep into your relationship
January 24, 2022
The needy and clingy people that become emotionally abusive
January 5, 2022
When your friends and family get convinced you’re the hurtful one
December 20, 2021
Is telling them you’re leaving better than just leaving?
December 1, 2021
Is an emotional affair okay when you can’t get your needs met?
November 12, 2021
Afraid of staying and afraid of leaving
November 3, 2021
The type of person that doesn’t deserve a second chance
October 22, 2021
When you want them to hurt
October 15, 2021
When the emotionally abusive person leaves the relationship
October 7, 2021
When you want it to be over and they don’t
September 23, 2021
Subtle abusive behavior is meant to hurt you in a very specific way
September 14, 2021
Who are you when you’re not in a toxic relationship?
July 30, 2021
Is there an easy way to help someone understand they are being emotionally abusive?
July 11, 2021
Some people would rather hurt you than be vulnerable with you
June 29, 2021
Knowing the difference between emotional abuse and normal relationship difficulties
June 17, 2021
How many times does someone have to hurt you before you decide enough is enough?
June 3, 2021
Letting hurtful words or threatening comments become the new normal
May 18, 2021
Six reasons you may feel guilty about leaving an emotionally abusive person
April 30, 2021
Don’t let emotional abuse take your decisions away
April 15, 2021
What’s acceptable behavior in the relationship?
April 2, 2021
Is it reactive abuse or a normal response to emotionally abusive behavior?
March 18, 2021
What is emotional abuse? How do I know when it’s time to leave? And other important questions.
March 12, 2021
Can you be in a toxic relationship for so long there’s no turning back?
February 17, 2021
Do they benefit from your response to their hurtful behavior?
February 3, 2021
The slow disintegration of the deepest part of who you are
January 10, 2021
The guilt from believing you could have done more
December 30, 2020
You have to protect the most important person in your world from hurtful behavior
December 10, 2020
If you’ve tried everything to stop the hurtful behavior, what’s next?
November 21, 2020
Sometimes things need to be perfectly lined up to make the big decisions about the relationship
November 4, 2020
Understanding the addict in the manipulative relationship
October 19, 2020
Should you try harder to please the emotionally abusive person?
September 30, 2020
How the emotional abuser takes your empowerment tools away from you
September 10, 2020
Glossing over the first detail in an argument will make it fall apart fast
September 4, 2020
You deserve to be treated with nothing less than respect and kindness
August 28, 2020
Should you share content that talks about emotional abuse with emotionally abusive people?
August 16, 2020
What do you do when they’re gaslighting you?
August 6, 2020
How incompatibility can lead to hurtful and emotionally abusive behavior
July 18, 2020
Breaking the patterns of bad behavior that diminish your worth and well-being
July 1, 2020
Not everyone is going to agree with the decisions you make for yourself
June 25, 2020
Toxic relationships can disintegrate your strength and confidence, but you can get it back
June 16, 2020
I want you to change: The toxic elements of the difficult relationship
June 4, 2020
Emotional abuse drains you and makes you believe terrible things about yourself
May 22, 2020
You don’t have to forgive the person that hurt you
May 7, 2020
Both sides of emotional abuse: The offensive abuser and the defensive abuser
April 15, 2020
When boundaries don’t work and how to pick the right therapist
April 3, 2020
Connecting all the dots of emotionally abusive and manipulative behavior
March 24, 2020
The Turn-Around game: How emotionally abusive people keep you busy explaining and defending yourself
February 29, 2020
When the emotional abuse stops, can the relationship continue?
February 12, 2020
When you are triggered by your Facebook friends: Staying out of abusive interactions on social media
February 6, 2020
Yes, the emotional abuser can change, but…
January 30, 2020
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