Relationships can survive even when things are bad, but what about when things are never good but just functional? Is just functioning together good enough? Can you make it...
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...
Sometimes, both people in the relationship are hurtful, controlling, and manipulative. When that’s the case, it’s going to take more than one person stopping the behaviors, and that presents...
When someone tells you they love you but continues to hurt you, something fundamental breaks down in the relationship. You start questioning everything. You wonder if love is supposed...
When someone looks down on another person because of their gender, race, or any other characteristic that makes them different, what’s really happening beneath the surface? The answer reveals...
You can’t fix what or who is unwilling to be fixed. And when someone would rather you and the relationship suffer and crumble than work on improving themselves, you...
If you feel trapped in a maze of emotional manipulation, hoping for a change that never comes, you might realize you’ve signed up for something you didn’t expect and...
I’ve seen emotionally abusive people heal and become completely different people. You wouldn’t even recognize them! And when you no longer recognize the person who’s hurt you over and...
When you’ve decided to leave the emotionally abusive relationship, when is divorce put on the table for discussion? Should you bring it up during a heated argument when emotions...
Some relationships end, but continue leaving destruction in their wake. Some don’t end, and you suffer through the daily drip-feeding of emotionally abusive behaviors until you lose your sanity....