If you have been in an abusive relationship, you may think you do not know how to answer that title question. Lets ask some questions to get you thinking. Do you love your children, your parents, your siblings? How do you treat them? How do you treat the person who abuses you?You love your children. Lets look at overall patterns, not single events. Most mothers are in the habit of being patient an...
How did your relationship go from loving to abusive? The abuser does it gradually. He breaks down any positive image you have of yourself.In the beginning he says he loves youyou are beautifulyou are intelligentyou have a good personalityhe likes an independent womanyou have so many good qualitiesAnd you feel like a queen. So you start loving him for the way he builds you up.Then one day he gets m...
It appears that a celebrity incident has brought domestic violence back into the limelight. Domestic violence is one kind of unhealthy relationship. Research reveals some basic facts about domestic violence.Although some women are abusers, men are the perpetrators a greater percentage of the time. This article focuses on male perpetrators. Women can do the same things.Domestic violence begins with...
Dating and relationships are touchy issues. Everyone has advice for the single person. Some is good. . . .Men and women communicate differently. Men tend to say what they mean more directly than women. Women tend to put the message into code, which men do not understand.A couple of years ago I read the book He's Just Not That Into You, co-authored by Greg Behrendt. It seems he was on Oprah recentl...
A radio talk show psychologist said we think of divorce as a blow out, when in reality it is a slow leak. That came to mind when I read Dear Abby the other day.The letter came from the "other woman," although she denied being a "mistress." She claims her lover's marriage is intact. They just get together whenever they can and claims they are "best friends."Whether the man's wife admits it to herse...
Most people do not marry planning to divorce. Ignoring warning flags during courtship can lead to divorce. A divorce attorney analyzed issues that divorcing couples brought to the divorce table. He devised this list of eight questions for people to ask both their beloved and themselves before committing to marriage:1. "How do you believe we should spend our money and on what?" If...
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