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The feelings of guilt and shame after leaving the abusive person

  • November 17, 2025
  • Divorce, Emotional Abuse, Guilt, Relationships, self-esteem, self-worth, Shame
If you’ve ever questioned how to forgive yourself for choosing your own well-being over an abusive partner, you’re not alone. Victims of abusive behavior almost always feel like they’ve...
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Breaking the trauma bond can be hard as hell

  • October 23, 2025
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Emotional Abuse, Healing, Relationships, self-esteem, self-worth, Trauma bond
The trauma bond can be one of the most difficult “bonds” to break. If you find yourself obsessively attached to someone who hurts you, please read this article. Your...
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Can you heal from severe abuse while still in a severely abusive situation?

  • October 23, 2025
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Emotional Abuse, Healing, Jealousy, Physical Abuse, self-worth, Trauma bond
Some people will deflect blame and make you feel like you’re the problem, not them. In this article, I talk about a heart-wrenching story from a listener whose partner’s...
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Never trust someone who wants to change who you are

  • July 22, 2025
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Control, Emotional Abuse, Gaslighting, Manipulation, Relationships, Resentment, self-esteem, self-worth
An emotionally abusive relationship will change you. And the longer you’re in one, the more you will lose yourself in it. Getting back to who you were can be...
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When someone wants to change who you are

  • May 20, 2025
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Boundaries, Control, Emotional Abuse, Healing, Manipulation, self-worth
The one-off difficulties in relationships are perfectly normal for everyone. We all have them. They’re not welcome, necessarily, but normal. But what happens when the “one-offs” become systemic? What...
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The gradual shift from who you were to who you became in the emotionally abusive relationship

  • January 31, 2025
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Emotional Abuse, Gaslighting, Relationships, self-esteem, self-worth
The person you were before the difficult relationship almost always looks and feels different than the person you became while in the difficult relationship. Losing that part of yourself may make...
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When you can barely take care of yourself let alone give them what they want

  • October 17, 2024
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Boundaries, Emotional Abuse, Healing, Relationships, self-worth
What if you’re doing all you can to maintain your own health and well-being, but you have someone in your life who is a consistent drain on your mental...
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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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Feeling discarded when they leave the relationship

  • May 23, 2024
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Emotional Abuse, Healing, self-esteem, self-worth, Vulnerability
Why does it seem so easy for some people to leave a relationship, get into another one, and act as if the one they were in didn’t mean anything?...
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Time with yourself is not only necessary, its required

  • April 22, 2024
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Boundaries, Emotional Abuse, Relationships, self-worth
You give, you adapt, and you change who you are almost to your very core… to what end? When you are overly compassionate to others, you might actually be...
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