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Enabling

When the good you do for them leads nowhere

  • March 28, 2024
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Emotional Abuse, Enabling, Narcissism, Relationships
Some emotionally abusive people don’t change, no matter how much the victim of their hurtful behavior changes for them. Is there ever a point where they will be the...
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What will it take to finally get them to stop?

  • December 7, 2022
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Control, Divorce, Emotional Abuse, Enabling, Manipulation, Relationships
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 be you. Stopping it...
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Can depression be used for manipulation?

  • April 20, 2022
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Codependency, Control, Emotional Abuse, Enabling, Guilt, Manipulation, Relationships
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 their condition or illness...
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The thoughts and beliefs that allow toxic behavior to seep into your relationship

  • January 24, 2022
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Codependency, deception, Emotional Abuse, Enabling, Minimizing, Relationships, self-esteem, self-worth
You are not to blame for getting into a toxic relationship. It is not your fault. However, there is a way you process bad behavior that may be working...
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Can you be in a toxic relationship for so long there’s no turning back?

  • February 17, 2021
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Boundaries, Codependency, Emotional Abuse, Enabling, Relationships
Months can seem like an eternity when you’re in a toxic relationship, but what about years? Can you not only survive a relationship like that, but also thrive if...
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Understanding the addict in the manipulative relationship

  • October 19, 2020
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Codependency, Control, Crazymaking, Emotional Abuse, Enabling, lying, Manipulation
Dealing with a manipulative and controlling relationship is bad enough, but what happens when the person doing the bad behavior is also dealing with addiction? What if the addiction...
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If you leave me, I’ll kill myself – The ultimate abuse of your empathy and compassion

  • September 25, 2019
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Control, deception, Emotional Abuse, Enabling, Guilt, Manipulation, Relationships
Confronting the ultimate manipulation in a relationship, the threat of suicide is a very troubling and often abusive tactic. It’s a scenario that traps an empathetic, caring individual in...
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