Signs your in an emotionally abusive relationship. . .

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.

2)Your partner purposely ignores you

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.

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

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

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.

1. They make you feel like YOUR the crazy one

1. They exclude you from pretty much everything

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.

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

1. They accuse you of being "too sensitive"

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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