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Love and Abuse – Manipulation and Emotional Abuse in Relationships

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Relationships can survive even when things are bad, but what about when things are never good but just functional? Is just functioning together good enough? Can you make it work?

Functioning together can make some aspects of life easier, but not necessarily happier.

I received an email from someone wrestling with a question many people face but r...


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How much hurtful, controlling, and manipulative behavior is too much? Is there a breaking point where you have no choice but to make a change because they won’t?

When your boundaries are violated over and over again, eventually you will have none, and the sky will be the limit on someone else’s hurtful and controlling behaviors.

When someone cros...


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Understanding how someone becomes emotionally abusive isn’t about excusing their behavior. It’s about recognizing the patterns that create it so you can see what you’re dealing with.

When you understand the progression from childhood coping to adult entitlement, you start to see why change is so difficult for these individuals and why their behavior feels so j...


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Sometimes, both people in the relationship are hurtful, controlling, and manipulative. When that’s the case, it’s going to take more than one person stopping the behaviors, and that presents a few challenges in itself.

When someone asks if a mutually abusive relationship can be repaired, they’re really asking if two people who’ve hurt each other deeply can some...


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