survival

If someone you love–including yourself–is being emotionally abused, you’ll find it mirrored here:

Abuse comes in several forms: emotional, physical, sexual, verbal. Often emotional and verbal abuse get erroneously played down. People sometimes falsely assume that it can’t be “that bad” and isn’t dangerous, but that couldn’t be more wrong. Emotional abuse is dangerous and it’s just as damaging as physical abuse. When I was in an emotionally abusive marriage, the words hurt more than any punch I could have suffered. In fact,

 I remember saying at one point “I’d rather you’d just hit me. It’d hurt less.” Continue Reading