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Manipulation

Trying to figure out who the emotionally abusive person really is in the relationship

  • April 16, 2025
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Arguments, Emotional Abuse, Manipulation, Relationships
You’d think it’d be easy to figure out: The hurtful one is the abusive one. But what happens when the victim gets convinced they are the abuser? Determining that...
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Why abusive people need to maintain power and control over you

  • February 22, 2025
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Control, Emotional Abuse, Healing, Manipulation, Relationships
Some people just won’t stop being hurtful. Why won’t they stop? Are they just terrible people we have to accept and move on? Power and control is their M.O....
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The growing resentment that can build when their hurtful behaviors never end

  • January 22, 2025
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Boundaries, Emotional Abuse, Manipulation, Relationships, Resentment
When someone keeps hurting you, you might blame yourself and think if you were only better, they’d stop. But as their hurtful behavior continues, resentment builds, and you start...
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When you decide enough is enough – the first step isn’t the last

  • August 6, 2024
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Emotional Abuse, Healing, Manipulation, Relationships
The victim of abusive behavior will eventually reach their breaking point. In that moment, they finally feel like they can take their life back. But they may still not...
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What change really looks like when the emotional abuser heals

  • June 9, 2024
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Boundaries, Emotional Abuse, Manipulation, self-worth
The healed former emotional abuser looks a lot different than the person they used to be. If you’ve ever accepted a hurtful person back into your life after they...
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A clever manipulation tactic that makes you believe you are the problem

  • March 2, 2024
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Arguments, Control, Crazymaking, deception, Emotional Abuse, Gaslighting, lying, Manipulation
There’s a clever manipulation that can happen in some emotionally abusive relationships. It starts with superficial kindness and vague promises and leads to blameshifting and avoiding true accountability. This...
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How emotional abuse can enter your life like an infection

  • February 14, 2024
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Divorce, Emotional Abuse, Healing, Manipulation, Relationships
Emotional abuse can be like an infection that enters your body. You may not know it’s there until a lot of time has passed, and you’ve invested a lot...
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Religious Abuse: When they use your beliefs and faith against you

  • March 31, 2023
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Control, Crazymaking, Emotional Abuse, Manipulation, Relationships, Religious Abuse, Shame
Your religious or spiritual beliefs are supposed to help uplift and inspire you, not make you feel oppressed and exhausted. Religious abuse happens when people who claim to love...
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The battles that drain your power

  • December 23, 2022
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Arguments, Control, Divorce, Emotional Abuse, Gaslighting, Manipulation, Relationships
The emotionally abusive relationship can be a battle. In fact, it can be a series of battles that wear you down and eventually wear you out. But at what...
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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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