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Stuck in am emotionally abusive relationship?
An emotionally abusive relationship is more difficult to diagnose than a physically abusive relationship quite simply because the latter doesn’t have physically apparent symptoms. In an emotionally abusive relationship symptoms could and often slowly creep in to your relationship causing you to adjust to increasing abuse without often realizing it. This is why it’s very important to pay attention to abuse signs if you suspect you’re in wife/husband abuse.
An emotionally abusive partner has one objective, whether you know it or not. And that is to submit you into fullfilling their wants and needs. They might do this, causing much harm, without being aware of it.
If you find yourself wondering whether you’re in an emotionally abusive relationship, take a moment and reflect on these common scenarios:
- You don’t feel you can freely express yourself with your partner.
- Your partner insanuated self harm if you end the relationship.
- Your partner monitors your communication activities for example your emails and text messages
- Your partner prevents you from going out on your own and might claim that this is for your own safety and security.
- No matter who’s around, your partner can be overly critical to you.
- In a relationship abuse, it’s not uncommon for you to lose your confidence and self esteem.
These are just a few pointers on what might happen in an emotionally abusive relationship and are by no means and extensive list. If you’re seeing abuse signs, and have reasons to believe you’re in such a relationship, get help fast. If you don’t take immediate action there will be a risk of the relationship escalating to the physically abusive and ending up in bodily harm. Even if doesn’t escalate as such, be aware that emotionally abusive relationships can and will lead to stress, depression, post traumatic disorder and other disruptive problems.
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Verbally abusive relationships defined
A verbally abusive relationship is not just limited to your spouse or partner. If could also reach out to affect your family, friends, coworkers etc. If someone, anyone whom you’re in romantic or non romantic relationship with calls you names, puts you down, threatens you or is overly criticizing of you, chances are you’re in a verbally abusive relationship. Here are a few common themes or signs of abuse to be aware of:
- It’s difficult to have a conversation without it exploding in swearing and angry name calling.
- If degrading adverbs are always directed at you, conversations doen’t have to end in name calling.
- You’re constantly being critisized.
- Name calling could be directed at those you care about, and not specifically directed at you.
- You’re being verbally underminded when it comes to things you care about, of your action or your looks.
This is just a short list of the signs of a verbally abusive relationship.This is by no means and exhaustive list of the signs of abuse. And you might have noticed that none of these are actually physical. Physical harm doesn’t have to be a part of the relationship for it to be damaging. A verbally abusive relationship us equally damaging if not more. That’s because, verbal abuse has no evident symptoms, unlike physical abuse. This allows it to sneak quietly into your relationship.
If you’re seeing abuse signs, and have reasons to believe you’re in such a relationship, get help fast.There is real danger of it developing into a physically abusive relationship if you don’t take quick action.
In the coming article, we’ll be discussing what are the symptoms of a verbally abusive relationship. Remmember, educating yourself about verbally abusive relationships is the first step to resolving this. The best way to avoid further developments is to take immediate action to resolve this.
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