Understanding how someone becomes emotionally abusive isn’t about excusing their behavior. It’s about recognizing the patterns that create it so you can see what you’re dealing with. When you...
What do you do when someone shatters something that brought you joy? It’s important to know your limits in relationships and recognizing when resilience becomes a liability rather than...
What happens when you’ve had enough of the bad behavior and want the other person to leave you alone? In a family situation, that might be easier to do...
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...
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...
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...
