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  • Children, Divorce, Emotional Abuse, Relationships
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  • December 30, 2020
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Children, Emotional Abuse, Forgiveness, Guilt, Physical Abuse, Relationships
A mom wrote to me and said that she is blaming herself for not doing the right job parenting her abusive son. Guilt is plaguing her and she wants...
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  • November 4, 2020
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Boundaries, Children, Divorce, Emotional Abuse, Forgiveness, Healing, Relationships, Shame
There’s a point of either intoleration or breakdown that you sometimes have to reach in order to finally make a decision that you need to make about a toxic...
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Don’t show them how crazy you feel and sharing custody with the emotional abuser

  • August 7, 2019
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Children, Crazymaking, Emotional Abuse, Gaslighting, Narcissism, Relationships
Emotional abusers can make you feel crazy. They will convince you you’ve said things you didn’t say, they’ll remind you about conversations you’ve never had, and they may purposefully...
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