Category: Writings
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Are you a Victim of Domestic Violence?
1. Is your partner threatening or violent towards you or the children? 2. Do you find yourself making excuses or minimizing your partner’s behavior? 3. Do you feel completely controlled by your partner? 4. Do you feel helpless, trapped, alone, and isolated? 5. Do you blame yourself for the violence? 6. Does your partner blame…
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Dealing with Abandonment Issues
Dealing with Abandonment Issues by Sue Anderson When a relationship ends, both partners experience turmoil and loss, but the one who is left feeling abandoned bears the brunt of the pain. Why does it hurt so much when someone leaves us? Loving and wanting someone who does not love us back engenders a deep personal…
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Emotional Abusers
Emotional Abusers by Natalie P. Most people have had it happen: at some point in our lives we find ourselves manipulated or “guilted” into doing something we didn’t want to do. We end up angry at ourselves for caving in, and resenting the other person for pressuring us. However there are other kinds of emotional…
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Top 7 Reasons People Stay in Abusive Marriages
Top 7 Reasons People Stay in Abusive Relationships By: Cathy Meyer If you have known someone in an abusive relationship, I’m sure you’ve wondered why they stay. What motivates a person to stay in a relationship that causes them emotional and physical pain? It’s puzzling and hard to imagine but there are reasons. Reasons that…
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Definition Of Abuse
Abuse comes in many forms and types. It’s hard to pinpoint why an abuser chooses a certain type of person. Unfortunately, that’s usually one of the first things the victim tries to figure out…”why me?” There is no real answer, and the question implies that the victim, somehow, feels at fault. It’s not your fault!…
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How to Love Yourself
“I am the one I have been looking for.” –Iyanla Vanzant We spend so much of our time waiting to be loved, hoping love will find us, searching, yearning for that special love. Feeling empty and lost without it. Wanting someone to give us love and fill us up. Unfortunately, that’s not usually how life…