Nyxks Musings

Tag: Abuse

  • Emotional Rape Syndrome: What is Emotional Rape?

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    Emotional rape has many similarities to physical rape, particularly date rape. Date rape involves the sexual use of someone’s body without consent. In a like manner, emotional rape is the use of someone’s higher emotions, such as love, without consent. However, in the case of emotional rape the lack of consent is contained in what…

  • Relationship Red Flags

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    Relationship Red Flags Kristina de la Cal A happy, healthy and balanced relationship is one that consists of mutual respect, open and honest communication, and a genuine appreciation for one another. Of course no relationship is perfect and there will likely be days when you and your partner get on each other’s nerves or make…

  • Love Yourself or The Art of High Self-Esteem

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    To love yourself means to accept yourself as you are and to come to terms with those aspects of yourself that you cannot change. It means to have high self-esteem, self-respect and a positive self-image. Needless to say, it does not mean being arrogant, conceited or thinking that you are better than anyone else. It…

  • Why Victims of Partner Abuse Stay with Their Batterers

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    People who don’t know a lot about the dynamics of partner abuse may ask, “Why would someone stay in a violent relationship?”. Some victims may ask themselves that same question. Here are some examples of things victims see as barriers to leaving their relationships. Though this list does not cover all victims’ experiences, it provides…

  • A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE …

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    A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE … enough money within her control to move out and rent a place of her own, even if she never wants to or needs to… A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE …. something perfect to wear if the employer, or date of her dreams wants to see her in an hour…

  • Dysfunctional Family: People Pleasers

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    One begins to wonder, at times, whether the world consists of a combination of People Pleasers and people who are never pleased with anything. Dysfunctional families, in particular, are composed of these two character-types, forever dancing an awkward dance of unhappiness and frustration. People Pleasers are generally full of self-doubt, self-blame, shame, and humiliation. They…