They might be being truthful, or they could just be lying too. And listen to their answer. What they say in that moment says a lot! If you want to know if you can help the emotionally abusive person in your life stop hurting you, questions like this are how you do it.
This type of behavior usually gets you nowhere. In this type of relationship, you often go nowhere until you find out the concrete data that you need to either move on with them or without them. Once you know the data, you can take action. You can make smarter decisions — ones you can trust will be based on facts not crazy thoughts you think might not be true.
The truth can be hard to handle. How do you deal with a truth that might be hard to handle? Usually, you just push through it. Does that mean you leave a work environment that is harassing and abusive? Those are questions that will certainly come up in your mind. In fact, no one knows your situation better than you.
And you might be completely wrong. You could be right of course. What you imagine happening after a conversation like that could happy. But you also might be wrong. You have this strength inside you. You have this resilience and a high level of toleration. On the plus side, high tolerance for bad behavior contributes to your resilience which actually gives you the strength to be able to handle anything that comes your way. When you get into these conversations that can lead to concrete data, you will have everything you need to help you make the next decision.
You will have what you need to help you make the next right choice for you. The next right choice for you is always the right choice for other people that love and support you too. Remember that. When you make the right choice for you, those who love and support you want that for you as well.
People who love and support you want you to be happy. They want you to follow your dreams, your passion, your goals, your vision, and anything else that makes you happy. But my point is someone who loves you wants you to be happy. From a safe vantage point, you can live your best life while also watching to see if he is truly changing. Learn what the 13 signs of change are in the full transcript below and on the BTR podcast.
Tragically, most men will not choose to change and will do all they can to keep their victims locked in the vortex of abuse. That is why the Betrayal Trauma Recovery Group meets daily in multiple time zones: so that women can receive the daily support, validation, and answers that they need as they begin their journey to healing. Join today. They looked at me like I had some disease. I know now why they were looking at me like that — they were very concerned.
Then I learned more and I realized that he had been abusive since before we married. How can we get him some help? Have you read the book yet? And then I read it. And then I understood why they were worried. I was in denial. I was in danger. I was the one who needed help. I needed some serious help. Around this time, I started working on my own recovery. Change is difficult, uncomfortable work.
For him, remaining abusive is in many ways easier than stepping out of his pattern. Yet there are some men who decide to dig down inside themselves, root out the values that drive their abusive behavior, and develop a truly new way of interacting with a female partner.
The challenge for an abused woman is to learn how to tell whether her partner is serious about overcoming his abusiveness. Because he becomes attached to the many rewards that his. This reluctance cannot be overcome through gentle persuasion, pleading or cajoling by the woman. I am sorry to say that I have never once seen such approaches succeed. In other words, the initial impetus to change is always extrinsic rather than self-motivated. Even when a man does feel genuinely sorry for the ways his behavior has hurt his partner, I have never seen his remorse alone suffice to get him to become serious [about changing his behavior].
But it takes a long time for an abusive man to get to that point. For an abusive man to make genuine progress he needs to go through a complex and critical set of steps. When I learned about these steps, my first thought was to give my husband a copy of this chapter of the book.
Then he would know what to do! I thought. But my victim advocate, my sponsor, and my therapist advised against it. Over the seven years of our marriage, my husband had become expert at mimicking healthy behaviors without really changing.
He was an actor. And I did not want to give him the script. Same goes for you. It is not advisable to give your abuser or the addict in your life this list.
The wise thing is to set boundaries until you see the following behaviors. That is the only way you can know if they are really changing. Admit fully his history of psychological, sexual, and physical abusiveness toward any current or past partners who he has abused. Denial and minimizing need to stop, including discrediting your memory of what happened. Acknowledge that abuse was wrong, unconditionally.
He needs to identify the justifications he has tended to use, including the various ways that he may have blamed you, and to talk in detail about why his behaviors were unacceptable without slipping back into defending them. Acknowledge that his behavior was a choice, not a loss of control. For example, he needs to recognize that there is a moment during each incident at which he gives himself permission to become abusive and that he chooses how far to let himself go. Recognize the effect his abuse had had on you and your children, and show empathy for those.
He needs to talk in detail about the short — and long — term impact his abuse had had, including fear, loss of trust, anger.
And he needs to do this without reverting to feeling sorry for himself or talking about how hard the experience has been for him. Identify in detail his pattern of controlling behaviors and entitled attitudes. He needs to speak in detail about the day-to-day tactics of abuse he has used.
You can look for examples such as improving how well he listens to you during conflicts and at other times. He has to demonstrate that he has come to accept the face that you have rights and they are equal to his. Re-evaluate his distorted image of you, replacing it with a more positive and empathic view. He has to recognize that he has had mental habits of focusing on and exaggerating his grievances against you and his perceptions of your weaknesses to begin instead to compliment you and pay attention to your strengths and abilities.
Make amends for the damage he has done. He has to develop a sense that he has a debt to you and to your children as a result of his abusiveness. He can start to make up somewhat for his actions by being consistently kind and supportive, putting his own needs on the back burner for a couple of years, talking with people who he has misled in regard to the abuse and admitting to them that he lied, paying for objects that he has damaged, and many other steps related to cleaning up the emotional and literal messes that his behaviors have caused.
Accept the consequences of his actions. Commit to not repeating his abusive behaviors and honor that commitment. Accept the need to give up his privileges and do so.
This means saying good-bye to double standards, to flirting with other women, to taking off. Accept that overcoming abusiveness is likely to be a life-long process. Be willing to be accountable for his actions, both past and future. His attitude that he is above reproach has to be replaced with a willingness to accept feedback and criticism, to be honest about any backsliding, and to be answerable for what he does and how it affects you and your children. Most of my clients find it fairly easy to apologize, for example.
His unspoken rule may be that once he has apologized, no matter how cursorily or devoid of sincerity, his partner must be satisfied; she is not to make any further efforts to show her feelings about his mistreatment, nor may she demand that he fix anything. Now shut up about it. Many of my clients make it through the first three steps: They admit to a substantial portion of their abuse; they agree that their actions resulted from choice rather than a loss of control; and they apologize.
Then they dig is their heels at that point. He actually has to take seriously the furious things that she says and think about them rather than using her emotional pitch as an excuse to stuff her opinions back down her throat. When I explain this step, my clients at first look at me as though I had an eye in the middle of my forehead.
You should reflect on the points she is making and respond to them in a thoughtful way. He may abandon a few of his forward positions, but this fortification is where he surrounds himself with sandbags and settles in for protracted war. This may be the single most-overlooked point regarding abusers and change. The progress that such a man appears to be making is an illusion. If he reserves the right to bully his partner to protect even one specific privilege, he is keeping the abuse option open.
And if he keeps it open, he will gradually revert to using it more and more, until his prior range of [intimidating] behaviors has been restored to full glory. They resent women who require them to change and persuade themselves that they are victims of unfair treatment because they are losing their lopsided luxuries. Bancroft gives a list of things that indicate for certain that the abuser is not changin g:.
It gave me a way to tell, even with a Do Not Contact Order, if my husband was safe enough to interact with. I held my no contact boundary and will continue to hold my boundary until my husband exhibits the recovery behaviors from this list.
Spiritual abuse is often more subtle and overlooked than we realize. Learn the truth about spiritual abuse and how to begin healing here. Learn more about how BTRG can help you. Learn more. I am so heartbroken. I have been struggling with his promises to never go back to porn and he has gone baxk at least 3 more times amd aleaya a sorry.
I fpund out 6 monyhs after we started dating and it dis not stop. Blaming me for not supporting him, not recognizing all the he progress he has made, telling me its in the past and he cannot keep living like this. I said i meedes space amd he immidiatley watches porb again and said he qas going ro commit suicide if i didnt come pick him up. I love him amd i sanr ro belwibe bur my jeart says the sex dreams havent stopped and he still gets very angry because i am not always sweet.
He hates me questioning him and says i just have ro believe him. I am angry mean and i yell a lot because I dont understand how he can semd me forgiveness scripture to help me forgive him and walk in love…. I found the history on his phone a week later. We faught and I have attacked him physically. I am ashamed because he doesnt seem to understamd I cannor trust him and je isntbactimg in a way tjat builds my trust back.
He just walks away and says he has nothing to say. He is done apologizing and sick of repeating himself. It has been 50 days since last time I know of and I have told him I need A lot more time, maybe years of apologies, reassurance and patience. He wants me healed now and upset I am not ready yet. I love him… and i am so sad. I dont feel strong enough to heal myself on my own and my heart says he has good intentions bur that he will comtunue to break my heart.
Sorry for all the typos. I was typing fast through tears. I feel like a horrible woman who failed heee man in every way. I feel ashamed for feeling thianiant good enough.
I am happier alone but i still feel the need to love someone the way i want to be loved…. You deserve the best. You can do this. Have you joined the Recovery Group? Oh to be in the place you are right now. You are not married to him and do not have kids with him. Just think, down the road in years, if this is the life you want and the way you want to be treated.
Please protect yourself and your future kids who will learn from his behaviour patterns, and be treated the same way he treats you- with lies and anger.. You deserve to be loved and treated with kindness and honesty and faithfulness and not cheated on!
Thank you for the supportive comments. I wanted to give a follow up. It has now been 16 months since my last post. I got pregnant last August with twins. He says he gets angry when i question him and i have uncovered more lies. I had unexplained seizures in sept and one of the babies passed away. The ER said I was under too much stress. On Nov 29th I had another 5 bad seizured and almost bit off my tongue. I dont remember it and it made me have memory loss. I dont remember thanksgiving with my other three children.
They are so important to me and they have gone thru too much already. I lost my driving job because of the seizures, wenlost our house and had to sell almost everything. We had to move back to UT and got help from my family. I had to go a specialist to moniter tge baby because i was high risk amd they said the second set of seizures should have killed me and my baby.
I asked many questions about what happened ro me and hiw he did with having all the nurses around one of gis many fantasies. I has been so hard. I didnt have all the details to tell the neurologist about what happened. He has confessed thru anger and rage that last year he had an emotional affair, wanted sexual favors from another eoman and the third he eanted ro start a relationship with but said it was only because he found her cute — he said he never spoke to her.
He also admitted that he watched porn the whole time and was just using me. He said if I accused him then he relapsed. I saw him treat me with dishonor almost everyday… he pretended and admitted his stories changed and he lied to shut me up. He just wanted to tell me what i wanted to hear. I wanted the truth but he refused. He still cannot confess to all the lies about past or present.
When i catch him, he still denies or minimizes. Now our baby is almost two months.. I am still discovering more about his infidelity but only when he is angry with me. I am so ashamed that i couldnt leave. He agreed to go a therapist finally but he is still relapsing. He saysbiys not a rrlapse because he was looking at pictures of me and didnt actually masterbate.
I still dont trust and he wants me over it now. He says he is suffering when i am not rwsdy for sex and i feel obligated to keep him satsified so he doesnt have another excuse to cheat and blame me for it.
I am devastated and a crazy mess. I cant swem to break free. I gave him anal anf haf sex too soon after the baby. My sutures got torn and I hemmoriged for 5 days still spotting i am so afraid of nurses i just rode it out.
I was exhausted and needed to sleep… that is when he resorted to going into the bathroom with nude pictures of me he took of me last week. He did eventually tell me but doesnt see my concern that may open the door for him to search for other photos. He said he was horny and mad at me.
I should just be happy it wasnt another woman. She loved me as your friend loved you. She was a bright, happy and highly spirited woman and here she was with someone who brought her energy down. I was a drain. Yes, you may be a drain to her.
It needs to be treated, absolutely. In my situation, her telling me she was leaving was exactly what I needed because it shook me up so much that I decided I was no longer going to let depression run my life. It sounds like you are there too. Sometimes good people that leave us do us the biggest favor because it helps us learn that we have stuff to work on.
I brought my wife down with my depression. If I was happy and lively but I had to tone down who I was just to be in a relationship, it would be very difficult. It just means that sometimes people need to heal and grow to become the best version of themselves before they get into a relationship.
Your focus on yourself is excellent. Her focus on herself is also excellent. She may have been so conflicted inside. This is a good thing. If you still see her, thank her.
Let her know that she is absolutely right and that you need to focus on yourself and will continue to do so.
Not for her, for you. And perhaps one day you will connect again in the future as the new person you are becoming. But until then, you are grateful you met and you are also grateful she made the hard choices she made to travel her own path. Then leave her be. Hi there, thank you so much for the article. I am humbled by your vulnerability and healing journey. My husband and I have a cycle that goes like this: I communicate a boundary to my husband e. My husband probably also has some trauma from when I was abusive.
I am trying to figure out if I am being abusive and your article definitely resonates with me. I can be manipulative and very judgmental especially when I am triggered by whatever problematic behaviour.
We are at a crossroads now where he is planning to leave me. I have a strong belief that marriage is for life and so I am considering whether I can change my behaviour to save our marriage by being non-judgmental and accepting of his behaviour.
He says he understands his issues and plans to change but not with me, which hurts even more. We have 3 kids so I am doing whatever I can to keep our family together but need this cycle to stop. I need some stability so I can heal as I have been trying to do since I realized I needed to change myself about 1 year ago.
Is there a way for me to save my marriage by changing my behaviour? For me the biggest issue I have is the lying, my husband does it a lot — should I just accept it and stop requiring he be honest with me?
Thank you so much for sharing this Janelle. Let me get this off my chest right away: When you get angry that your partner violates boundaries that you have both agreed it, it is perfectly justified and you have nothing to apologize about! In fact, you apologizing about getting upset at his violation of agreed upon boundaries negates your boundaries! Yes, your name calling is justified. Your anger is justified. This is not abuse, this is a legitimate emotion that you are feeling and have every right to feel and be angry at him about.
If he has an emotional affair and lies to you about it, there are two relationship boundary violations right there.
If you feel that he is a lying bastard then he is a lying bastard. That is your right. He broke the rules and your emotional response makes perfect sense under the circumstances! If one person is violating the rules, then there is no more relationship. If your husband lies and has emotional affairs, then he has violated the marriage contract whether you believe in marriage or not. I never look at saving a marriage as a goal. The challenge is that BOTH of you have to work on yourselves in order for a marriage to be saved.
This means that he would also need to do some hard reflecting on his own behavior and choose to make changes for himself so that he becomes the best version of himself as well. Be careful about placing marriage over your relationship values.
Good pay, good benefits, nice atmosphere, no time with kids. You would likely be miserable. List your values for a relationship i. Then compare your current relationship to that list. Are you highest values met? I know marriage is important to you, but remember what makes a marriage.
I see marriage as full cooperation and teamwork to build something beautiful together. I see it as being able to be honest with one another even if the truth is painful and sharing experiences and being faithful. I see it as wanting the other person to be happy so you do whatever you can to make that happen. I know that might sound harsh, but I hope you see my reply as tough love because I want you to make the right decisions for you based on what is best for you.
Some people meet up again as new people because they learn so much about themselves and want to try again. And some people can stay together and heal through the challenges. My final thought is to tell you to make sure not to compromise your own relationship values to save a marriage that actually violates those values. Your reactions are normal and justified. He should be crawling back to you with his tail between his legs begging for forgiveness.
I appreciate you sharing all of this. Thank you and I wish you much strength and healing for whatever the future may bring. Thank you for sharing all of this. First and foremost, I hope you read my article on infidelity. If there was trust, would any of your other behavior exist?
My guess is no. And you had a very good reason to be distrusting! One who lies easily and does it over and over again has proven that a lie is like a breath. It can come out easily and effortlessly, and you have no idea what truth is when it comes to people like that.
Because of that, you may never have been able to trust him. In other words, trust has to be rebuilt by filling in all the gaps of knowledge and all the unsolved mysteries. One who is remorseful and regrets their cheating is going to open up his or her life to their partner.
Come with me. They make you and the relationship a priority and they do everything they can to live in a glass house so you can see everything because they know they screwed up bad and the only way to heal a relationship, if it can be healed, is to open up their life and provide anything and everything their partner wants to know about.
This is often how trust is rebuilt. It may not happen in some cases. Your behavior likely stems from mistrust. But remember Reactive Abuse comes with the territory of an affair in a relationship. He cheated and lied about it, and probably lied about other things too since it seems to come easy to him. Typically, the caught cheater who lies about it for a long period of time months or longer finds that it gets easier and easier to live two separate li v es and are prone to cheating with more than one person.
And that reveals a lot about who they are a lot more than the cheater who regrets their behavior, comes forward, and admits it on their own. This really depends on how long ago the cheating was as well. If it was within a year, then he should not be complaining and should feel very lucky you stayed to try to heal together.
I typically see a relationship heal from cheating in about a year or under time. If it goes longer, then something needs to change. Again, my infidelity article will talk about the duration of time needed to heal for both people. But you had a battle going on inside yourself. You had anger and you had hope and anger was winning more often! What you wanted was perfectly reasonable! You wanted someone who had integrity.
And because of that, you were likely being gaslighted that lead to your behaviors. It sounds like that might have happened here. He treated me terribly in the relationship but he was a good person. This was so very confusing to me. Other blogs and articles on this topic seem to miss this aspect. Reading what you have to say brings me a lot of peace. I am grateful for your comment here Anne. And sometimes hard to differentiate between the two.
My former partners and eventually my wife did me the biggest favor by taking away the one thing I never wanted to lose: Them. I view their decision to leave as a gift to me and them of course because it was the impetus I needed to start focusing on myself to heal and not others to change.
You have given the person you were with a gift and an opportunity to look within. Hopefully they will and find healing. I wish you much strength through your healing as well.
I broke up with someone a few years back, and she was able to call me out on my emotionally abusive behavior.
Few days after the breakup, I started to realise that there had been a pattern to all my relationships before this and they all had a way of going down the same road. My fear of abandonment had been so crippling that I would use any means to just hold onto the relationship, even if it meant destroying the person I was with.
I started going to a therapist, she helped me to recognize these very patterns. Your article helps, and gives me hope. I am so grateful you shared this here. There is definitely a path out of the suffering and the feelings you are having. Took me a while to figure it out, but once I did, my entire life changed.
Thank you for putting in the energy to frame this topic in a positive way. Finishing this article and reading all the comments made me feel more whole as a human. Probably helps that its hitting so close to home right now. A recent and sudden realization that my partner was emotionally abusing me led to my breaking point; ending our romantic relationship. Not all aspects of our relationship had these types of behavior, but key parts did.
To me, this duality meant that their unintentionally toxic behaviors and self destructive coping strategies were the problem, not that they were consciously making a choice to constrain my quality of life. For me, this is the distinction that makes my choice to stay my own. There are still plenty of healthy and supportive parts of our relationship.
Initially, they struggled to find resources for identifying those behaviors and determine why they were triggered. Nearly every resource out there is for the victim, which I can appreciate as a victim.
What I need from them is make sure they put daily effort into not repeating this cycle. Afterwards, they found your article. Our discussions over the last week had already led to the profound epiphany that enabled me to see them as capable of change and empathy. This type of recovery resource was difficult for us to find, so it happened naturally for us.
But based on stories from places like… reddit, paint a much more emotionally disconnected view of the situation. Which, I guess is to be expected. The boundaries that I needed are neatly reflected above through your own experiences, and I agree that it will vary wildly with the people involved and specific circumstances. I came to those conclusions before I had read this article or all of the comments.
I had to process those feelings instead, so thanks for that! As both a current victim and recovered emotional abuser, vulnerability and honesty are my best tools. Both of us are already active in individual therapy, and are choosing to focus on healing without an expectation of a romantic relationship.
Your story is going to help others choose to save their own lives, and the lives of those around them. The faster we can break these cycles, the less of a hold they have IMHO.
I am grateful, humbled, and honored by your comment. Thank you so much for taking the time to share this here. I think vulnerability and honesty have been and still are two of the most important components of my healing as well. Also, always turning the focus back on myself whenever an old abusive pattern starts to sneak into my mind, instead of focusing on those around me which is part of my vulnerability and honesty for sure.
Hi I want to stop being emotionally abusive, I am a teenager and I am suffering through a break up, Me and my ex broke up last October and now that some time has passed, I reflected in my own actions and I think I am an abuser. The guilt, regret and shame is eating me. I talked bad at him when we were together. I would always say mean things whenever we had arguments in the past.
I prioritized other people than him. He was a good person, treats me good, never said shit about me even when we broke up, never invalidated my feelings and would always help me to boost my self esteem.
Never cheated, never manipulated me and loved me from the bottom of his heart and now I got time to reflect on myself and I am really regretting my actions in the past a lot. I came here to ask for advice on how to stop being emotionally abusive so that in my future relationships, I am sure that I will not do it again?
I am afraid that I might have some serious undiagnosed mental issues and I have no enough money to hire a psychiatrist or psychologist. Please help me. Thanks so much for sharing here. One, give yourself some major credit for spotting this in you. At 17, there was no way anyone could convince me that I was being emotionally abusive toward my girlfriend, but I was.
Two, you may have a lot of pent up anger or upset either toward yourself or someone else in your life or your past. Again, way beyond your years. I spent a long time blaming others when in reality I hated my stepfather. One night during a time when I thought I was going to lose my relationship, suddenly I started crying and fell to my knees yelling how much I hated him.
It was a total surprise to me! Where the hell did that come from? But after it came out, it was the start of a healing journey that never would have happened had it not been for a moment where I allowed myself to hate. I never allowed myself to hate anyone. I thought it was a sign of a bad person to hate someone else. But when I finally allowed it and all the hate came up and out of me, something else happened: I stopped hating him.
It was strange and liberating. There could be many reasons you lash you. Parents were restrictive, neglectful, hurtful or abusive. Or you witnessed someone being abusive toward someone they love and you picked it up as how you should behave toward others.
Four, apologize to him if you are still in touch. And make it a no-strings-attached apology. Something as simple as:. I have started working on myself. I wish you the most amazing life. Or whatever YOU want to say. Just let him be. He may or may not reply. Allow him to make decisions that are right for him. You may or may not ever talk again, but the most important step you can take is to continue working on yourself.
Finally, five, make sure you are signed up for my emails over at healedbeing. They are going to give you tools to start the healing process. To know ALL of this about yourself and see your behavior so clearly, you have already made a giant leap.
With your ex, he will get through it too. So many things are happening and coming at you, so be gentle with yourself. Triggers are sometimes buried deep. Thank you again for sharing here. I have a feeling there are a lot of people in your very situation that needed to read this. I wish you much strength and healing as you move through this. Thank you so much, I really appreciate this.
I am afraid he might not be able to forgive and would probably resent me forever because I think I did him really wrong. I just want to move forward and to not carry all these baggage to my future relationships.
I am in a toxic household, my dad were physically abusing us when we were younger and he never said sorry, he talked badly to us whenever we make a little mistake and would always belittle me. I never had the chance to say to him that I was hurt and his words affected my self esteem. I feel like I was neglected. I am not using this as an excuse but I feel like I adapted his toxic behavior and I projected it to my ex. I feel really terrible and I am struggling to find compassion to my self.
Think of forgiveness and apologies as gifts. You give the gift of your apology. The gift has no strings attached. When you care about someone, you give gifts without expectation. You gave the gift of your apology. That just means he needs time to heal and process. Apologizing is the best you can do and sometimes the only thing you can do. In other words, if he chooses to forgive or not is up to him and when you support his choice, that is a very caring act. There are times in your past where you were hurt and probably never felt like you had anyone around to help or support you.
I highly recommend you listen to it because it will be very helpful to you. Because of that, we have to almost parent ourselves into rebuilding that self-worth and self-esteem. This will pass. You will get beyond this.
I remember I thought every time someone broke up with me it was the end of the world. You will heal. It may not be today or tomorrow, but maybe by next week. Or maybe it will take months. But be patient. I am really thankful that you shared your experiences with me and I would probably treasure this article forever because it really helped me to reflect on myself more. Thank you so much this really means a lot to me. Hey I came across your article which made me realize I am emotionally abusive.
My ex and I broke up at the beginning of December and officially moved separately mid February. She was staying somewhere else even before the move out. We still of course talked even up until last week. I feel as though the emotional abuse is a generational curse as my family and I have not been so easy on the words. I am committed to breaking this cycle and becoming a better person for myself and her. She says she is still very angry.
I am afraid I have done everything wrong after the breakup. I am afraid I cannot save this and I want to. I read countless articles including yours. Many saying no contact is important, not begging, gifting, and popping up. I read this can be a turn off and no contact is for them to miss you.
In the mist she did say she was still in love and there was no one else. This is all a result of the emotional abuse. I have sincerely apologized to her many times. It has only been a week since we last talked and I am losing it as I have the entire time.
I have sent extremely long emotional messages which I also read could be overwhelming. Every conversation leads to talking about the bad.
I really want to be a better me and of course rekindle our relationship. Your article also made me realize triggers that lead to emotional abuse which I have acknowledged. I am committed to making this work. Thanks for sharing Kay. Sorry you are struggling with this. One of the most important steps to take after a breakup where you have been the emotionally abusive person is to focus on yourself and not the other person.
You know this, I can tell, from your comment here. But you may have the reasons for this all wrong. One reason is that the victim of emotional abuse is so used to being convinced and coerced that your focus on her feels like more convincing and coercing.
Someone who knows they need help and knows they are harmful stops putting their attention on the person that they were harming. That means you turn that focus back on to yourself and work on your healing. The problem with most emotionally abusive people is that they have so much fear about losing the person they love that they forego the healing and just want the person. Healing has to take place. And sometimes that means it has to take place without the person that was a victim of the hurtful behavior.
It took several failed relationships for me to learn this. Yes, you CAN eliminate emotional abuse in your relationship; emotional abusers can — and do — change. Objectivity, responsibility, humility, self-discipline, and motivation are the necessary character traits needed by the abuser to make these necessary positive changes. Can emotional abusers change? Take our FREE quiz and find out! Determine if the emotional abuser you know has what it takes to change.
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Aggressive anger is typically used to bully and intimidate the target of abuse. If violence occurs in your relationship, you should call the police. Safety must come first. Sadly, many good people have died at the hands of their own partners.
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