Unlike physical abuse, emotional abuse may not heal by itself over time. Given that its impact targets more the psychic areas than the body, you could be unconsciously scarred for a long period of time.
Because the damage is on the self-esteem and identity areas, healing emotional abuse means healing primarily both your mind and soul, [...]
The silent treatment, also known as the “cold shoulder treatment,” consists of feigned apathy, total silence, and being distant on purpose. One person displays an attitude of complete disinterest for the spouse, as if the other person would be a complete stranger.
This form of emotional abuse can be very disorienting. Being ignored on purpose by [...]
When you are a child, all the deal with the grown ups around you revolves on a single question: are they going to help you grow, develop and survive as to be happy as an adult? Or they either don’t care about you, getting you in serious danger of life, or are they going to [...]
Time ago, I saw this interesting piece of information: Dr Gottman’s study on married couples explained how it is possible to predict if they will stay married or divorce. How is this possible? Watch the first five minutes of a conflict between the sides of the couple, and you can know in 95% of the [...]
Emotional scars are invisible scars that follow us for life!
A new study by Florida State University researchers has found that people who were verbally abused as children grow up to be self-critical adults prone to depression and anxiety. Of the whole sample population, an staggering 30% reported that they were often verbally abused by their [...]
Trying to understand the confusion that his message: “I love you” causes in your brain, because he says that while he is always busy with everything else but you?
Have you noticed that usually there is a thick curtain of technological devices between you and him, like his cell phone (always in a call with [...]
We are all sure that having peace and harmony in our relationships keeps us healthy, vital and productive. We all know that, on the other hand, conflict can make us tense, sick and unhappy…only because we are scared of its consequences.
Unfortunately, harmony gets broken because we don’t know how to manage our daily conflicts without [...]
Is there a Relationship Between Logic and Emotion in Your Conflicts?
Why do we want to look at this issue?
If we could separate the logical aspects of conflict from its emotional base, it would be easier to deal with so many perceived differences.
This hope is futile, because we get into logical arguments to nurture an emotional [...]
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