Signs your in an emotionally abusive relationship. . .

in #abuse7 years ago

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Morning Steemers.

So today i am here to discuss something a little different again- emotional abuse. Now we are all very well familiar with domestic abuse, but did you know emotional abuse can be just as harmful leaving long-term devastating consequences? I am going to list below signs of emotional abuse and I would be really interested to know if any of you are emotional abuse survivors, how it affected your life and what you did to get out of it, or if you are still in it. You may have been emotionally abused in a relationship or even as a child by your parents or primary carers.

So, here are a few signs that you are in an emotionally abusive relationship:

  1. Your partner regularly calls you names to put you down about yourself.

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2)Your partner purposely ignores you

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3)Your partner enjoys to humiliate you, especially in front of other family members, friends or in public. He/she may even make it out to be a "joke" but it happens on a regular basis.

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  1. They deny the abuse when confronted about it and instead try to turn it all back around on you

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5)Your partner often likes to threaten you and intimidate you. They may to threaten to leave you on a regular basis and they like to remind you how you would struggle "being alone" making you feel some what dependent on them

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  1. They isolate you from friends and family

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  1. They mock you for the things you like to do. This could be your hobbies, interests, music you enjoy listening to, books you like to read etc to the point where it makes you feel stupid for liking them and embarrassed.

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  1. They make you feel like YOUR the crazy one

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  1. They exclude you from pretty much everything

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  1. They don't care or notice your feelings. They don't even acknowledge them and they are highly absorbed in themselves, they are often a narcissist.

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  1. They with hold sex from you and any other form of intimate relations such as hugging, kissing, cuddling etc

  2. They share YOUR personal information with other people

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  1. They accuse you of being "too sensitive"

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It's extremely hard sometimes to recognize that you are in an abusive relationship and sometimes even harder to pull yourself away from it. When you do, it's a lot easier to see the bigger picture and notice things that were not right. Often, when people leave an abusive relationship, they are pulled back in slowly with the belief that the person has changed as they are faced with false promises. The abuser is often a good actor/actress and can lead you to believe that they are truly sorry for their actions. Because at times there is no physical abuse present, it can be hard to see that there is actually anything wrong and easier for you to blame yourself when in reality, you are the victim.

If you feel you are in an abusive relationship please please please try and get help. There are many support systems out there to help you. Be open, accept that you are in a negative, toxic relationship and get help.

I am interested to know other peoples experiences with emotional abuse, please comment below. I can then upvote and follow your blogs.

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Great list, I am butting in to add to your list one-sided commitment (the abusers wants the relationship to be exclusive on the victim's behalf while they themselves cheat all the time even in the victim's face),fits of unprovoked possesiveness and jealousy, baiting the victim by trying to make them jealous all the time or constantly offending/belittling/scaring the victim,then in public trying subtly to get a rise out of you only to use your reaction as "proof" that the abuser is really the victim here and get other people to side with them, then using this event as extra ammunition to further their abuse in private. Demanding full access to your private communications while they also expect that their own will remain private.And not to mention gashlighting their victims until they break their mental health to pieces,only to use the results of the gashlighting as an excuse for even more abuse.

Hey Annie, thanks for stopping by. Thank you for your input, have you been in an emotionally abusive relationship yourself ? I have followed you.

Let's say that I comment from experience.But I have been working on repairing the damages I sustained and I am making quite the progress.

Nice list, thank you for sharing,. Sadly stuff like this is so common. People are often in abusive relationships and don't even realize it.

Yes a big indicator of emotional abuse is that often the victim is unaware hence why it goes on for a long period of time causing a lot of damage. . .
Also, they tend to think the perpetrator is not doing anything wrong because it isn't "physical" sad really.

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