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35 Disturbing Signs of Gaslighting In A Relationship

Have you ever been in a relationship where you often question your feelings, instincts, or sanity? For example, let’s say you found an email that your partner wrote to someone else, and you thought was inappropriate since you’re in a committed relationship. You approach your partner about it, but he or she insists you misinterpreted […]

10 Appalling Signs You Are In A One-Sided Relationship

You’re in love, so you want to do anything you can to make your partner happy. Trust me, I have been there. You’ve opened up your heart, and you’re excited to have a deep connection with this person who seems so perfect for you. You find yourself being selflessly available to your partner 24/7, no […]

12 Signs Of Emotionally Unavailable Women

Men and women want to experience a healthy, fruitful relationship with the person they love. Relationships are the bonds that hold societies together. But being in a relationship is a complicated enterprise. No two people are alike when it comes to sharing life experiences, or when it comes to falling in love. We like to […]

Financial Abuse: Are You Being Controlled And Manipulated With Money?

Money makes the world go ’round. It gives us the freedom to do what we want, buy what we need, and pursue our dreams. Even if you’re not wealthy, you have the ability to get a better job, earn more, spend and invest the way you see fit, and make your own financial decisions. At […]

13 Warning Signs Of A Self-Absorbed Partner

Picture this. You have been in a relationship for a few months, and you begin to notice your amazing new partner spends a lot of time talking about himself and his accomplishments. Your beautiful new girlfriend seems to look around every room she enters, waiting for heads to turn and approving looks to come her […]

How To Cope With A Lack Of Empathy From Your Spouse

Empathy is one of the defining characteristics of emotional intelligence. To have empathy, you must put yourself in another person’s shoes — to feel what they are feeling and seek to understand their perspective. You must be willing to step outside of your own needs and feelings in order to be present and engaged with […]

7 Steps To Healing From Emotional Abuse

You finally did it. You ended it. You left your abuser after years of manipulation, verbal assaults, control, and unkindness. You had the courage to say, “Enough is enough,” and make the excruciating decision to say goodbye to this person you once loved, maybe even still love in spite of everything. Part of you feels […]

How To Deal With A Narcissist: 5 Guaranteed Tactics

Dealing with the narcissist in your life is difficult for many reasons – but the most difficult is not one that you would expect. Most of us simply don’t know when we’re faced with a narcissist or when people we know intimately display signs of narcissism. We want to think that our close circle has […]

8 Signs of Narcissistic Abuse

From the outside, narcissistic people look “normal.” They’re often charming, outgoing and idolized by others simply because they appear so perfect. But to you, they’re anything but perfect. You’re never at ease around the narcissistic person, and you can’t pinpoint exactly why. You can’t reconcile the “perfect” image most people have of the narcissistic person […]

Scripts For Emotional Abuse: 107 Empowering Responses To Use With An Abuser

New Book Release Today: Emotional Abuse Breakthrough Scripts: 107 Empowering Responses and Boundaries to Use with Your Abuser Emotional abuse keeps you tongue-tied and anxious, unable to speak up for fear of rocking the boat. When your abuser shuts you down with control, anger, manipulation, and subtle threats, it’s hard to know how to respond or […]

12 Surprising Forms Of Verbal Abuse

What is a word? According to Dictionary.com, a word is “a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning.” Words have enormous power. As the “principle carriers of meaning,” words can lift us up or crush us. They may be no […]