For a deeper understanding of what keeps emotional verbal abuse going and what stops it, visit www.PreventAbusiveRelationships.com and see the Intimate Partner Abuse Screen. Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D. is founding director of nonprofit Partners in Prevention, dedicated to helping domestic abuse survivors and their advocates.
Far too often when you leave an abusive relationship , you go from the frying pan to the fire and don’t understand what’s going on until you are toast.
What’s wrong with her for “letting” him talk to her like that? Read on to understand the customary evolution of verbal emotional abuse in an abusive relationship.