Abuse doesn’t need bruises to be real! Let’s define emotional Abuse in an intimate relationship. Emotional Abuse is when a partner uses WORDS or SILENCE to control, humiliate or isolate their “targeted victim”-partner. Why use the harsh term “targeted”?That is what perpetrators of domestic Abuse do intentionally and deliberately, to gain control and maintain power through different forms of Abuse. Emotional Abuse damages the victim’s self-worth, dignity and emotional health. A few common examples are.
Gaslighting: Making the victim doubt their memory or sanity.Insisting that the victim is making up stories about the Abuse with denial statements like: “You are crazy-that never happened ; l never said that or said that!”
Silent Treatment /Ghosting: Refusing to speak to their partner without giving a reason to punish them, manipulate them, and create the fear of confrontations in the future, lest their partner is offended.
Isolation: Controlling whom you speak to, where you go, your phone calls and messages.
Emotional Blackmail: Using fear or guilt to control decision-making.”If you leave me, you will regret it!”.” if you report to the authorities whom do you think they will believe?” “If you leave me you will never see your children again”.”Without me you are nothing,and you will be deported .”
In the following article, another common form of domestic Abuse: Verbal Abuse
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You Are Not Crazy!
You Are Not Weak !
You Are Not Alone!
