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 [...]
A Passive Aggressive Husband Needs a Special Kind of Wife
Passive aggressive behavior does not happen in a vacuum; it requires an adequate partner to play the game with. This interaction is created between two people-one person who resists proximity and responsibility and the other one who accepts too much frustration to feel a minimum of [...]
In life there are always difficult interpersonal situations, which force us into soul searching because we want to change fast what is hurting us so deeply.
Are you kept by your loved one in hurtful, frustrating, and confusing isolation, and you don’t know why? Have you always been afraid of confronting someone you love, because he/she [...]
If you are a veteran of “office wars,” then perhaps you have experienced a lot of backstabbing, sabotage and nasty behaviors, right? As a normal consequence, you think that there is very little to be done to control this competitive behavior. You have become resigned to a certain degree of aggression every day in the [...]
Why are there people more angry than others? Life is an equal opportunity “dissapointer” …in the sense that there is not a universal right to happiness for anybody. So why some people appear to have more anger issues than others?
It all begins, of course, in infancy, where we all as children have a keen sense [...]
There are a lot of people walking about with a sense of false entitlement, as if others owe them something. They don’t even need to express what they need, because others have to guess or assume what is expected from them. Many of a “cold shoulder” episode between partners stems from this assumption
Let’s unpack what [...]
Whether it’s the man or the woman, when your partner withholds sex it has a definitely bad effect on a relationship. It can be a signal of the smoldering of hidden anger inside a passive aggressive spouse. Over and above what it’s doing to the relationship, what is it doing to you?
Many feel that the [...]
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