Every year more than 10 million Americans experience violence within their romantic relationships [1]. Domestic violence impacts heterosexual couples as well as the LGBTQ community and both men and women. When someone is repeatedly hurt by a romantic partner, it seems like the victim would decide to end the abusive relationship. However, it’s difficult to...
Why is it So Hard to Leave an Abusive Relationship?
A Holistic Approach to Healing from Emotional Abuse
Emotional or psychological abuse is any behavior that uses insults, threats, or other psychological behaviors to control someone. Emotional abuse can occur in romantic, parental, and professional relationships. Examples include isolating the individual, discounting their reality, expressing jealousy and more. Although being in an emotionally abusive relationship may not leave visible injuries, the effects...
Enmeshment Trauma: When Love Becomes Suffocating
According to family systems theory, relationships between parents and children are naturally interconnected and influence one another. In order to support the well-being and healthy development of young children, the family system needs healthy psychological boundaries between family members. These boundaries help family members distinguish themselves from each other. Healthy boundaries also evolve as children...
Emotional Abuse Checklist: Common Behaviors of Emotional Abusers
Emotional abuse is an often-hidden, insidious form of abuse which can cause lasting damage to the victim. Unlike physical forms of abuse, emotional abuse can operate in a covert fashion, targeting the core of the victim’s sense of self and emotional well-being with manipulation, deception, and threats.
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