One of my friends, who lived in a remote area, suffered an insidious form of emotional abuse when her abuser was rarely home early, because he worked such long hours. This is a particularly effective and disempowering form of emotional abuse, if the victim is a mother without a babysitter
Monthly Archives: March 2016
It is easy to gain a dependence on a bullying partner
These are samples of a wide range of abusive behaviours designed to control and disempower through emotional means. Abusers, for example, often threaten to leave the victims, and despite being in an abusive situation this threat of abandonment can fill them with fear. Linda, for example, had developed a dependence
Emotional abuse is the most common and is deadly
The 2007 report of Women’s Aid, an Irish organisation to assist abused women, shows that reports of emotional or psychological abuse were greater than any other type of abuse. The same is true for Canada and the United States. All classes, races, genders and ages are targets for emotional abuse.
The emotional controller is moody and sulky
Emotional/Psychological abuse She grew close to him And felt the warmth of his love Enveloping her in its gentle embrace. She did not feel the chill That sometime came And brushed against the edges of her soul. Looking with sightless eye, He did not see The cut inflicted on her
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Tags: abuse, psychological abuse
Tags: abuse, psychological abuse