Emotional Abuse

It’s exhausting to talk and not be heard, to be invalidated, to fight for someone who does not value you. Imagine, working hard, giving your all but you’re still not being appreciated for your efforts. Fatigue and being exhausted are common symptoms of being in an abusive relationship. You’re psychologically…

Months ago, I shared my experience in learning that my long-term relationship was abusive and the long-lasting effects it had on my mental health. I recently read that piece for the first time in a while and I actually found it hard to read as I no longer agree with…

The worst fights always happened around dinner time, which is probably why you never had a good relationship with food. You could never remember how it started, but the one thing you do recall is the structure of it. He was easily triggered, by the words, facial expressions, or even…

I’ve been hearing survivor stories for over two decades now. People who say the worst moments of their lives in quiet words, hushed in whispers as they struggle to understand what they’ve been through. Grown adults who cry like lost children as they share the losses they’ve suffered. Children who…

At the time I was in high school, my home town was small. Everyone knew each other or you were related to them. My graduation class had all grown up together. This made dating difficult. We very rarely received new students, and if we did they would not stay long. …

When you’ve been in an abusive relationship, you’ve been emotionally, mentally or even physically battered by someone who you thought was once your light in shining armor. Pain and suffering become part and parcel of your day-to-day life and you may deeply feel that you’ll never have a way out…

2022.05.21 — I feel unappreciated when you don’t let me know that, with my own needs waitlisted, it seems that you just don’t even notice all I did today everything I did for Home when, I guess, you have nothing to say I start to feel so all alone & I feel…