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Abuse and Divorce – Why You’d Want to Make Friends With Your Divorce Court Record

by Dr.Jeanne King, Ph.D.

I once heard that the hardest thing for an abused child, next to being abused, is to tell and re-tell their story of the abuse. As a psychologist, I know this to be established thinking and as a protective parent, I witnessed it as well. It’s not that much different for battered mothers…though it’s not in the telling; it’s in the “hearing.”

I have seen case after case of battered women coming to me unable to even look at the documents in their court record, much less read them. These women are eager to tell me their story, but to hear it being told…well that’s another story.

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Verbal Emotional Abuse- Why Emotional Abusers Don’t Want You to Confuse Them With the Facts

by Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D.

“Don’t confuse me with the facts!” “I need to see this from my reality only!” Sound familiar?

Have you noticed how arguments escalate with emotional abusers? They tell you that something is bothering them in no uncertain terms, but often fail to fill you in on what the hell it is. So here you are knowing fully what they feel, yet you remain in the dark as to why.

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Legal Domestic Abuse – The Rape of Affluent Battered Women by Their Divorce Lawyers

by Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D.

Affluent battered women and divorce attorneys are a receipt for rape in the rawest form—legal abuse in domestic violence divorce. Now this doesn’t mean that divorce lawyers are rapists or that domestic abuse victims are an accident waiting to happen. What it means is that the dynamics between these two groups of people are ripe for a classic rape. Here’s why…

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