The most overlooked form of abuse is emotional abuse.
At one moment your partner loves you so much and at the other moment you are being punished for the mistakes you did in the relationship.
Sometimes you are punished by a silence treatment that lasts long after you apologized. Quarrels always end with you crying, feeling useless and devalued…
Like one girl who said her boyfriend could get so angry that he would spend two weeks without talking to her.
I felt pity for her because such silent treatment is more than just anger, it’s hatred.
The most important sign that you are in an emotionally abusive relationship is that you are nervous around your partner.
Another sign is being isolated from everybody else who has been important in your life – for example you are being forced to cut relations with your close friends and family…
Isolation makes you easier to control.
A woman can speak badly about a man’s relatives so as to isolate him from them.
A man can forbid his girlfriend from calling or meeting up with her close friends claiming he wants privacy and doesn’t want to be discussed.
All these are signs of controlling and emotionally abusive people.
Somehow you feel trapped and helpless. You feel like all you do can never please them enough. They make you believe it was your fault in some way so you deserve being treated this way…
These are signs of an abusive relationship – if you see that, stop hoping things will get better and call it quits. Now!
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