by Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D.
I often hear battered women talk about the abuse they witness between their intimate partners and their minor children. Many of these women blame themselves for the ongoing emotional abuse that they observe. It’s as though the children cannot do anything right in their father’s eyes. And the mother senses her partner’s jealousy…and faults herself for him feeling it.
Her claim is that if she only reassured him more of her love for him, then he would not pick on the child as much. My belief is that this thinking keeps her in a dangerous loop and is far from her truth, much less his.
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