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Tag: Abuse

  • What Causes Fear of Intimacy

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    Having fear of intimacy is one of the reasons why many women are single. They do flirt, develop relationships but these relationships normally don’t last long. Many of these women attract the wrong type of partners. They go for guys who are unavailable, abusive or have trust issues. Once they begin to develop some closeness…

  • Domestic Violence

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    Abusive people typically think they are unique, really so different from other people that they don’t have to follow the same rules everyone else does. But rather than being unique, abusers have a lot in common with one another, including their patterns of thinking and behaving. The following are some of their characteristics. Excuse Making…

  • 8 Ways to Heal When Love Hurts

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    Some times our loved ones hurt us. Dads can get physical or disappear from our lives. Moms can betray us with their anger and lack of support. A best friend can shock us by turning their backs on us. A spouse can be unfaithful and destroy our trust. Our children can take a destructive path…

  • Healing from toxic relationship

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    Healing from toxic relationships by I. Michael Akbar Created on: January 25, 2008 To heal from a toxic relationship you must first come to understand just how damaging such a relationship can be. Emotional vampirism might be an apt description when it comes to toxic relationships, where one partner continually drains the emotional life from…

  • The abusers — actors in disguise

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    First, and foremost, abusers are actors. It makes no difference what gender the abusive personality is, their primary skill is to emulate normal behaviour in order to disguise their own condition. I have spoken to many victims of abuse who say that the person they met and fell in love with “gradually changed” into a…

  • How to Build Self-Esteem After a Verbally Abusive Relationship

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    Moving on after a verbally abusive relationship is challenging because your abuser has convinced you that your character is somehow deficient. Verbal abuse can leave you with enduring psychological wounds; scars that can influence every part of your life and damage your self-esteem. Best-selling author, Patricia Evans, founded the Evans Interpersonal Communications Institute in order…