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Emotional Abuse...

What is Emotional abuse... Emotional Abuse & Intimidation Emotional abuse is any behavior that exploits another’s vulnerability, insecurity, or character. Such behaviours include continuous degradation, intimidation, manipulation, brainwashing, or control of another: Insulting or criticizing to undermine the victim’s self-confidence. This includes public humiliation, as well as actual or threatened rejection. Threatening or accusing, either directly or indirectly, with intention to cause emotional or physical harm or loss. For instance, threatening to kill the victim or himself, or both. Using reality distorting statements or behaviours that create confusion and insecurity in the victim like saying one thing and doing another, stating untrue facts as truth, and neglecting to follow through on stated intentions. This can include denying the abuse occurred and/or telling the victim she is making up the ab

The First Two Years..

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What to expect... Hey there Gals, I hope you are all well and have much faith in our Lord and savior and his Father in Heaven. I have done a little bit of digging into this subject as I was seeking answers myself.   I was simply feeling this topic tugging at my own heart, in fear for what I was lacking in my own life, and that was a secure future.   Only to discover that which I feared the most, is the very thing that God does not want us to do, and that is to worry and fret about tomorrow and what I will wear or eat.   Then God reminded me of a time, when there was only one way to get away from an abusive relationship, and that is to walk out with only the clothes that I was wearing that very day.   I walked out not knowing where I would be sleeping that night, or what I would wear the next day.   It made me realize that it means nothing if I had all material things, but yet be so controlled by them that my fear of losing them made me feel