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How do you know when your heart is sealed?

  • November 3, 2023
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Boundaries, Emotional Abuse, Healing, Relationships
In this article, I’m going to help you recognize the signs that indicate a relationship may be beyond repair. There comes a point where the damage to a relationship...
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What are the chances of an emotional abuser healing and the relationship surviving?

  • July 28, 2023
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Emotional Abuse, Healing, Relationships, self-esteem
I recently received a message from someone who started the journey to healing from their emotionally abusive behaviors. They said they are currently getting professional help, but wanted to...
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When they believe they've changed

  • February 17, 2023
  • Paul Colaianni
  • deception, Emotional Abuse, Healing, lying, Relationships
I get messages from those who are with someone who claims to have changed, but something doesn’t feel right to them. What they feel is usually accurate. There are...
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Don’t let emotional abuse take your decisions away

  • April 15, 2021
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Divorce, Emotional Abuse, Healing, Relationships
Sometimes in an emotionally abusive relationship, you have a big decision to make. That decision may be to leave, or perhaps you want to stand up and honor yourself....
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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 deserve to be treated with nothing less than respect and kindness

  • August 28, 2020
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Emotional Abuse, Gaslighting, Healing, Relationships, self-esteem, self-worth
When you’ve been mistreated for so long, you may begin to feel less worthy of love and affection. You might actually start to believe that you deserve bad behavior...
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Toxic relationships can disintegrate your strength and confidence, but you can get it back

  • June 16, 2020
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Emotional Abuse, Healing, Relationships, self-esteem, self-worth
When the toxic relationship has worn you down, taken away your ability to think clearly, and chiseled away at your confidence and mental strength, it might be time to...
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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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When the emotional abuse stops, can the relationship continue?

  • February 12, 2020
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Control, Crazymaking, Emotional Abuse, Gaslighting, Healing, Relationships
When the trust breaks, and there is no love left in the relationship, but the emotional abuse stops, is there a chance for it to heal, and can the...
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You can’t fix emotional abuse, you can only heal yourself and hope they do the same

  • July 10, 2019
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Emotional Abuse, Healing, Relationships, self-esteem, self-worth
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...
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