Those with personality disorders either are not able to, or have tremendous difficulty, with the dialectical dyad of healthy relating. Personality disordered individuals are for the most part very black and white. They live in painful inner-worlds of dissociative split-off opposites.
Contrary to the myth that women are only abused by men, some lesbian women abuse their female partners. Lesbian abusers perpetrate violence, and all types of abuse. Lesbian abusers perpetrate sexual abuse, emotional abuse, verbal abuse, domestic violence, financial and spiritual abuse upon their intimates.
There are many myths and there is much misinformation about verbal abuse. Verbal abuse is not anything to be taken lightly. Verbal abuse is abuse. You do not have to be hit to be abused. Verbal abuse has profound and long-lasting effects on self-esteem and on emotional and physical health. It needs to be taken seriously.
Abusers are impostors to the reality of who they are. They wear a the mask of charming when really they are insecure and controlling. Abusers wear the masks necessary to get their own way. Masks of charm, masks of rage, masks of caring, and masks of competence – all to hide who they are.
Are you in a toxic relationship? Are things chaotic, dramatic, with lots of conflict? Did you ever think love could be that complicated? Well, guess what, love is not really that complicated at all.
In the audio program, “Coping With Difficult Toxic and/or Abusive People” A.J. Mahari talks about the reality of coping with difficult, toxic and/or abusive people generally with a focus on the reality that holidays bring out the worst of the worst in toxic relating.
Toxic relationships seem to be pervasive to the point where healthy relationships are in the minority. Toxic relationships are proliferating and have been doing so for the better part of the last few decades.
Toxic relationships are the coming together of adults, who carry wounded children deep inside of them, and who were raised in [...]
When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
What is often not thought about in the arena of human life is that for all of the ability we have to think, feel, and perceive that may set us apart from other animals, we are after all still animals. We, like other animals do, have instincts. [...]
Boy killed in schoolyard fight
The Gazette
Published: Monday, November 12
A 12-year-old boy was killed in a schoolyard fight at Horizon-Soleil elementary school in the Montreal suburb of St. Eustache at 10:15 this morning.
An 11-year-old girl got into a fight with the boy during recess. According to other children who were there, the girl punched the [...]
