Are you a verbally abused wife?
By jmp824
@jmp824 (741)
Philippines
October 22, 2006 8:06am CST
Actually i got this striking question in one of the magazines I've heard. For all those wives out there or anybody, how would you recognize verbal abuse? Have you experienced being verbally abused by your partner? Share your experiences and how did you go through it.
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8 responses
@ArsonCuff (3114)
• United States
28 Oct 06
hey now..what about verbally abused men? Women have some "sharp" tongues on them sometimesand are fully capable of bringing down a man in such a matter..in fact I would say the playing field in the verbal and mental mind games is about even as far as guilt goes towards participants...
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@ramitemporalis (442)
• United States
28 Oct 06
I was in my last marriage. I got through it with a divorce lol.
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@juicemilk (2283)
• Australia
14 Nov 06
my last boyfriend was not very nice to me at all. He would always compare me to the girls around us, saying oh you should get hair like that etc
One of his friends had said to him that I wasn't his best looking girlfriend and then he told me....and said that it was true! He had had lots of of really hot girlfriends before.
I think the best compliment I got was oh you have a pretty healthy body.
I was very depressed after we finally broke up, and it was after he had cheated on me :(
But then once I had moved on, he decided that I was the one and started stalking me! Freak! lol
But now I am with a very lovely boy who is very nice to me and tells me every day that I am beautiful :)
@Dropey (213)
• United States
17 Nov 06
Well Im married and when we argue we verbally abuse each other. Im guilty and he is guilty for it. We always apologize about it and make a point to not to go to bed angry with each other. I think at one point in time in a marraige you will be verbally abused. Living with someone is hard sometimes and when you add pressure of bill, and money it can get to anyone. But on a serious note if your being verbally abused in a relationship you need to seek help and maybe go to couples counseling and if it is very bad get out of the relationship no one deserves to be abused verbally, mentally or physically.
@jmp824 (741)
• Philippines
22 Nov 06
Yes a good response, I agree.
If you are in a relationship, you can't really avoid to have misunderstandings every now and then and sometimes it will get worse. Whats not good to this is that out of our anger, we tend to utter words that are not good, unintentionally. And often times we or our partner will mistook it as something really hurtful. Saying sorry is one way of correcting these misunderstandings.
@altair_dip (807)
• India
24 Nov 06
verbal abuse may be different for different people and in different situations.. it need not only be in a married relation, it can be happening in the work place too
@pumpkinjam (8546)
• United Kingdom
28 Oct 06
I wouldn;t say I have ever been verbally abused by a partner but it is something my dad did a lot when I was younger. I think in some ways it is harder to get away from verbal abuse because if it's physical you have the proof like bruises and stuff like that and it is recognised and dealt with but when it's verbal, there is no way of proving it unless you do something like get some secret recording stuff in your house because the abuser is not usually going to let it happen in front of anyone else so it's just your word against theirs and they can try and say that there's something wrong with you.
