Are you in an emotionally abusive
relationship?
Does your partner
continuously degrade or belittle you? While emotional/psychological abuse is
difficult to define, examples abound. Here are some characteristics of
emotional abuse:
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Using one's economic power to control another |
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Threatening to leave |
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Making someone afraid by using looks, gestures, or actions |
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Smashing things |
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Controlling a partner through minimizing, denying, and blaming |
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Making light of the abuse and not taking a partner's concerns about it seriously |
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Continually criticizing you, calling you names, shouting at you |
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Emotionally degrading you in private, but acts charming in public |
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Humiliating you in private or public |
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Withholding approval, appreciation, or affection as punishment |
