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, [...]
If you are reading this blog, is because there is a sad side of your relationship. Instead of having security and support, constant appreciation and warm contact, you get indifference, hostility and sometimes outright abuse.
It is sad, and sometimes you think: Am I going ever to be happy?
Today, with the excitement of the New [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
If you are going to get into a marriage with a passive aggressive person, you’d better have a very strong self-esteem. Which, of course, it is a silly piece of advice, because if you really had a healthy, sound, strong sense of who you are, then you will never put up with a passive aggressive [...]
Marriage is a covenant that requires a delicate balance between the members: the expectation is of reciprocal support and acceptance. When this attitude is not offered by itself, as part of the deal, some basic trust is broken.
How this issue is broached, makes the whole difference. Can we ask for support without feeling humiliated and [...]
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 [...]
We are living in confusing times…the news keep bombarding us with information that is worrisome, difficult to act on and in general scary. What can we do to develop what is needed, a sense of resilience?
Where is this sense of inner strength coming from?
Sometimes our strength comes from having a positive sense of self. We [...]
TIPS for Resolving Conflicts with Loved Ones
1.- Expect to reach a resolution.
Many of us take a fight-or-flight approach to conflict, sometimes only to make our point stick. You and your future partner are on the same side of the same team, which is difficult to remember when you are in a heated argument. Resolution [...]
Here we are exactly at that situation where you begin to look around, trying to find an explanation for the huge difference between the life you are having and the life you dreamed of….and the response is pointing directly at your partners’ behavior.
Dealing with passive-aggressive behavior is extremely challenging because a really good, effective passive [...]
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