About Relationship Abuse
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What Is Perfection Abuse?
Perfection Abuse in the Urban Dictionary The Urban Dictionary, demonstrating once again that the streets do indeed have smarts, includes an entry on “Perfection Abuse”. Here’s what it says: Perfection Abuse: Demanding a level of…
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How Do I Stop Emotionally Abusing My Wife?
A husband asks how to stop emotionally abusing his wife: I am a verbal and emotional abuser and have a chance to save my marriage. How do I stop emotionally abusing my wife? I didn’t…
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How Crazymaking and Coercive Control Affect Your Brain and Thinking
Have you ever walked away from an argument with your partner thinking, I know what just happened. So why can’t I explain it anymore? Maybe you started the conversation knowing exactly what you meant. Twenty…
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Verbal Abuse Drives Domestic Abuse and Violence
Domestic abuse is more than sexual and physical violence. It includes mental and emotional abuse, and underneath nearly all of it is verbal abuse. Verbal abuse is more than name calling and more than yelling.…
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Why Do Abusers Abuse Other People?
Abusers are cunning and smart, masters at planning, persuasion, and execution. Their intelligence minus the ability to feel makes them dangerous.
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When Is Your Life in Danger?
When You Should Leave an Abusive Relationship Is your life in danger? The fact is, no matter what type of abuse you’re suffering in your relationship because there is abuse present, your life is in…
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Letters About Abuse
In the months after leaving my abusive husband, there was so much I wanted to explain to my boys! My oldest son’s anger was heavy and dense. I could reach out and touch my youngest…
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Are You A Great Candidate for Brainwashing?
Brainwashing and Abuse in Relationships Brainwashing occurs in long-term abusive relationships but begins in the very beginning. I once pictured a brainwash-able person as a prisoner of war. Much later, I understood that brainwashing easily…
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Crazymaking: Abuse That Makes You Doubt Your Own Reality
Crazymaking confuses, causes paranoia and makes you doubt your perceptions. Crazy makers do this on purpose because a weakened victim is easier to control.
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Examples of Verbal Abuse
Types of verbal abuse range from full on anger to forgetting on purpose. Even the silent treatment is a type of verbal abuse! Verbal abusers use several other sneaky tactics to abuse and control their…