When parents get involved in your difficult relationship
Dealing with a hurtful person is often hard enough. When your partner has hurtful parents, however, it gets even harder, especially when you thought you
Religious Abuse: When they use your beliefs and faith against you
Your religious or spiritual beliefs are supposed to help uplift and inspire you, not make you feel oppressed and exhausted. Religious abuse happens when people
When they believe they've changed
I get messages from those who are with someone who claims to have changed, but something doesn’t feel right to them. What they feel is
The huge wall the emotional abuser puts up
Why can’t they just change? Why don’t they just stop hurting you? Sometimes they’ve built such a huge wall of protection around themselves that nothing
The battles that drain your power
The emotionally abusive relationship can be a battle. In fact, it can be a series of battles that wear you down and eventually wear you
What will it take to finally get them to stop?
The person that hurts the one they love can do the behavior indefinitely unless someone is there to stop it. Usually, that someone has to
When you find yourself crawling back to them over and over again
Why do we return to toxic people over and over again? It’s certainly not because we love to suffer. But maybe there’s more going on
Bonding with people that traumatize you
Becoming dependent on someone can put you at their mercy sometimes. And if they are toxic, you are not only now dependent on them for
Can depression be used for manipulation?
There can be some good excuses for hurtful behavior. With some excuses, it can be hard to differentiate between fact and fiction. When someone uses
The abuser that sneaks their way into your heart and life in order to lock you in to a controlling relationship
Some abusive people know exactly how to lock you into the relationship so tight that you find it near impossible to get out of it.
