Emotionally Abusive Relationships

March 1, 2010 10:04pm CST
Are you/ or anyone close to you in an emotionally abusive relationship? What are the tell tale signs? Is an abuser clever enough to disguise the abuse as something else? Can they be jealous and possessive with you realising?
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
2 Mar 10
no renaissance2010 I have not but had a f riend or two who went remarks, and the man is very jealous and controlling. then it will escalate to actually hitting his partner or wife. then comes the honeymoon stage where he tells her how sorry he is, he will never do it again. blah blah but he will do it again and it will get worse and worse.the sooner the woman realizes he is not going to stop and gets out with herself and her kids if any,the better., the abuse can go on until he is so violent he can and sometimes does kill her.Yes sometimes the abuser will hit the woman in places where clothing hides the bruises like the abdomen and chest.,Yes they are extremely jealous and possessive too, usually starts with that and grows worse., why do you think you could be in an abusive relationship? if so do get help.
2 Mar 10
Well in the past I have been, but those men are long gone. I thought I may of seen the signs again, but now I just think it's over sensitivity. I just wanted a true breakdown of the signs just so i can clear my thoughts.
• Canada
3 Mar 10
Being in an emotionally abusive relationship is just as bad as being in a physically abusing one. I personally know a couple who argue almost everyday and most of their quarrels involve petty little things. I know all this because they live just across the hall. We can't help but to hear everything.
• India
2 Mar 10
Hi, Emotional abuse in relationship happens to almost everybody. Its actually good for those who are being abused. It actually makes them more strong and invincible. It helps them to have consideration of existing relationships and leaves a scope of better future relationship as well. Now, about the people who abuse the relationship, if they are clever and ingenious enough, they will certainly try to hide the true reason and show something else. The signs are quite clear in their avoidance in some cases, demonstrating a confusion in everything, being unduly arrogant and unfair and also in being paranoid. But the most important thing is how to get over such relationship. The first step would be to detach from the whole situation and stand on an indifferent ground. Everything is a mind game. Emotions are nothing but the mental states. Abusing relationships is sometimes not in your hand. But what if you refuse to get abused? Hurting people is not what you like to do, but what if you refuse to get hurt? There is a serious consideration that we should make about how to modify the immense mental strength we have. Emotion is something that if uncontrolled, may ruin everything, but if its controlled and channelized, it can bring miracles. God bless you all
@p3ks626 (6538)
• Philippines
2 Mar 10
When I was in medical school, we also discussed something about different kinds of abuse and its not just about physical abuse but verbal abuse as well. Once we are abused verbally then our emotions are affected. Emotionally we become weak and we are not able to cope with it well unless something has to be done, until some changes are going to happen especially on how your partner treated you. I cant remember all the details about the lesson I had in class, that was a long time ago already but bottom line is we will be able to cope with all these different forms of abuses but it will depend on us on how we will do it.
• Bulgaria
2 Mar 10
I've passed through this. I guess every case in different. In mine, the signs were jealousy first, possessive and verbal abusment - next. Now that I'm looking back, I see that I've made one big mistake - I let him to treat me like that. I'll try never to let someone to treat me like that again. If I don't recieve the good attitude that I deserve, then I'll just grab my things and go.
@wythe25 (96)
• United States
2 Mar 10
I have known people that have been in emotionally abusive relationships, but not while they were in the relationship. The signs of it are when they do something to make the other happy at their own sacrifice constantly. The other won't sacrifice anything and it's still not enough to please them. Most abusers don't have to disguise it as anything because the victim feels they must do this to keep the other happy. It's typically the victim feels they are in the best relationship of their life and to keep it, they must do everything to keep it. It's almost along the lines of Stockholm Syndrome, where the victim falls in love with the captor.