Helping you identify toxic communication, emotional abuse, manipulation and other forms of bad behavior in relationships. Full of tips and advice for your friendships, family, love life and marriage. Revealing covert abusive communication that takes away your power. Learn to pinpoint the specific toxic behaviors such as narcissistic abuse and verbal abuse before you are dragged in to their game so deep you come out a shell of your former self. Love and Abuse is the official podcast of The M.E.A.N. Workbook, an assessment and healing guide to help you evaluate the emotionally abusive and manipulative patterns in your relationship. Download the guide at loveandabuse.com.
What happens when the hurtful behavior stops and you are free to be yourself? Does the relationship now go back to normal like nothing ever happened? ...
Emotionally abusive people usually drain all of your energy. It's rare that they leave the relationship because they get their power from taking your...
What happens when you've had enough of the bad behavior and want the other person to leave you alone? In a family situation, that might be easier to d...
Emotional abuse in any relationship is made up of numerous behaviors, many of which can be quite hard to detect. When you're trying to pinpoint the ex...
Every wonderful aspect of you can diminish when you are with a toxic person. They find ways to convince you that you are unworthy and unlovable so tha...
If you told a "normal" person they were being emotionally abusive, you'd think they'd back off and re-evaluate their behavior. After all, people who c...
Some people become highly defensive or offensive when they want to hide something from you, or lie to you, or don't want to be vulnerable with you, be...
The two sides of emotional abuse are the perpetrator and the victim. Sometimes the victim can't tell if there's abusive behavior or just normal relati...
There's a point when there has been enough abusive behavior where you decide you're no longer going to stand for it and it's time to take the next rig...
When you're around those who constantly put you down with hurtful words or threats that they'll never talk to you again or leave you forever, it can b...