How To Identify Emotional Abuse in Your Marriage
Are you wondering if you’re experiencing emotional abuse? Learn how to identify emotional abuse in your marriage.
One of the most difficult forms of abuse to identify in a relationship, is emotional abuse.
Why? Because emotional abusers use justification of the abuse as a tactic, which keeps victims off the scent. In other words, one aspect of emotional abuse is the justification of the abuse, which usually includes blaming the victim.
Here’s How to Know if You’re Experiencing Emotional Abuse
Abuse is always about power and control. If your partner seeks power and control over you, your children, and others (a great resource to understand this dynamic is Patricia Evans’ book The Verbally Abusive Relationship), and employs these behaviors, you may be experiencing emotional abuse:
Gives you the silent treatment
Sulks and pouts
Uses explosive anger
Threatens and intimidates you
Uses coercion to push you into decisions
Uses name calling
Blames you for their behavior
Refuses to discuss issues in a healthy manner