When a relationship is difficult, it’s helpful to have an established baseline of acceptable behavior. If you don’t know what is acceptable and what isn’t, how can you possibly...
Sometimes it helps to know what to look for in your relationship and how a relationship is supposed to look when you just aren’t happy or are dealing with...
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...
Some hurtful behavior can have a secondary benefit to the person hurting you. Some behaviors can cause you to react in such a way that brings the hurtful person...
Emotional abuse has an insidious way of disintegrating the very core of who you are. It’s a process that can turn you into a shell of your former self....
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...
The very core of who you are is what can get compromised when you are in an emotionally abusive relationship. That’s why many victims of emotional abuse say that...
You’ve tried talking with them, expressing your hurt or unhappiness, but they still don’t seem to want to change their behavior. If you’ve done what you can, what is...
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...
One of the constants in emotionally abusive relationships is when the victim tries to please an unpleasable person. No matter what they do or how hard they try, it’s...
