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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...