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When they shower you with love after they’ve done bad behavior

  • August 23, 2024
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Emotional Abuse, Forgiveness, Gift bombing, Love Bombing
How can you tell if your partner’s affection is genuine or a manipulation tactic? What if they apologize every time they hurt you… but they don’t stop hurting you?...
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When the emotional abuser reaches back out after they’ve healed and changed

  • May 17, 2024
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Boundaries, Emotional Abuse, Forgiveness, Healing
When the emotional abuser apologizes to the person they’ve hurt and tries to make amends, especially after they’ve done a lot of personal growth and development, should they expect...
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When you find yourself crawling back to them over and over again

  • August 5, 2022
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Codependency, Emotional Abuse, Forgiveness, Relationships
Why do we return to toxic people over and over again? It’s certainly not because we love to suffer. But maybe there’s more going on that should be considered....
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Can you find yourself after they stop the hurtful behavior?

  • March 2, 2022
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Control, Crazymaking, Divorce, Emotional Abuse, Forgiveness, self-worth
Sometimes the emotional abuse stops. If and when it does, will you know who you are? Do you know where you went? Sometimes we lose ourselves in relationships like...
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Healthy Responses to their Frustrations and Annoyances

  • February 6, 2022
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Anger, Arguments, Emotional Abuse, Forgiveness, Narcissism, Relationships
How can you respond or react in the most concise, clear and healthy way so that their annoyance or frustration with you doesn’t turn into another toxic event in...
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The guilt from believing you could have done more

  • 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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Sometimes things need to be perfectly lined up to make the big decisions about the relationship

  • 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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You don’t have to forgive the person that hurt you

  • May 7, 2020
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Anger, Emotional Abuse, Forgiveness, Healing
If someone hurt you, abused you, or wronged you in some way and you’re still holding on to upset or anger toward them, how can you let it go...
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