Love and Abuse

Can you heal from severe abuse while still in a severely abusive situation?

Why you may not be ready to call it abuse when it is abuse

Do you end the relationship because they won't?

The breadcrumbing of relationships' past

The language patterns of the abusive person

Can you ever go back to who you were?

Never trust someone who wants to change who you are

The love of my life is the abuser in my life

Can someone change even after they've done something terrible to you?

You being the center of their attention is most of the problem

When someone wants to change who you are

The empty threats that keep the abuse cycle alive

Trying to figure out who the emotionally abusive person really is in the relationship

When a relationship is not a relationship

Don't lock yourself into a worse situation

Why abusive people need to maintain power and control over you

Those who hurt you have poor coping skills so give them a break... right?

The gradual shift from who you were to who you became in the emotionally abusive relationship

The growing resentment that can build when their hurtful behaviors never end

Are you the reason someone is hurtful to you?

When someone destroys what makes you happy

What makes taking a break from the relationship work?

When you can barely take care of yourself let alone give them what they want

When they shower you with love after they've done bad behavior

When you decide enough is enough - the first step isn't the last

What change really looks like when the emotional abuser heals

Feeling discarded when they leave the relationship

When the emotional abuser reaches back out after they've healed and changed

Time with yourself is not only necessary, its required

Emotionally abusive behavior is also physically painful

When the good you do for them leads nowhere

A clever manipulation tactic that makes you believe you are the problem

When you think you're strong enough to get back into the difficult relationship

How emotional abuse can enter your life like an infection

If you don't know your limits, you wont have any

When they go silent and emotionally disconnect from you

Should you give in to their perception of you?

Their past trauma and abuse isn't the immediate issue in the relationship

How do you know when your heart is sealed?

Is taking a break before breaking up the final blow to the relationship?

How you describe the challenges in your relationship can reveal if youre being emotionally abused

Should you make a list of everything they're doing wrong and hand it to them?

Avoid getting trapped into an emotional prison from which you can't escape

What are the chances of an emotional abuser healing and the relationship surviving?

Why they don't stop hurting you when they see you hurting

When parents get involved in your difficult relationship

Religious Abuse: When they use your beliefs and faith against you

When they believe they've changed

LAA Insights - The kids in between the breakup from the toxic manipulative partner

The huge wall the emotional abuser puts up