Mental Emotional Abuse – When Your Partner’s Judgments Are Your Defects

by Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D.

Have you ever noticed how your partner’s judgments about you say more about him than they do about you? Yet, he stands behind these judgments as though they are a certified list of your defects.

“You are a lousy housekeeper, because you don’t fold the laundry ‘correctly’,” he declares. “You’re a pig because of the way you keep your car (or better yet, don’t keep up your car),” he insists. Or, how about this one: “You are a spoiled brat because you have the safety net of your family’s wealth,” he whines.

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Healing From Domestic Abuse – Do You Need the Abuser’s Apology for You to Heal?

by Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D.

“What if the abuser never ever apologizes, does not believe in remorse and has no empathy? What then…how do we heal?” asks a reader. Good question for those seeking to heal from intimate partner violence.

Implied in this question appears to be a belief that I would question. Is it true that you need your partner to apologize, have empathy and show remorse in order for you to heal from domestic abuse?

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Communication in Marriage – Are We Communicating with Each Other or Not?

by Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D.

“We are going to have to change ABC in order for ‘this’ to work,” he demands. And all along neither he nor she understands why nothing happens. Communication in marriage like this closes off the dialogue. It stops it dead in its tracks. Why?

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