Trying to work as hard as you can to fix things you didn’t break is exhausting and demoralizing. The first step to healing from emotional or narcissistic abuse is...
Judgment is the ultimate relationship destroyer. It is the key to creating a rift so wide that the relationship issues might get to the point of unresolvable. Once you...
It can be a challenge to see the signs of toxic behavior when you first start dating someone, especially if things seem to be going well. After all, who...
When someone in your life claims to have changed and promises to stop behaving badly, have they truly changed, or are they just pretending? Telling the difference between the...
When the partner of a cheater carries guilt, thinking their own behavior caused the cheating, the relationship can disintegrate even further, destroying the very foundation of what’s left. The...
The actor in the relationship can fool the best of us. When you can’t tell what’s an act and what’s real, you soon start to question your own sanity....
Isolation occurs when someone wants to keep you from your friends, family, and support structures. You will become more dependent on the one who is isolating you, causing you...
Are you waiting for someone else to change so that you can get what you want? In this episode, I talk about an email I received from a woman...
Sometimes a conversation with a certain person always seems to lead down a path of misery. You end up feeling bad and can’t figure out what happened. These old...
Many emotional abuse victims believe they are at fault for the abuse, as if there is behavior they did to bring it on. The short answer is there is...