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Love and Abuse — 185 episodes
Can you get past more aggressive or physical abuse?
When the relationship boundaries are broken a second time
Someone's obsession of you can be disastrous
Isolating you from everything and everyone, leaving you a shell of your former self
They call me names, put me down, tell me how pathetic I am - I guess I'm the problem.mp3
It's me or them: When someone wants to control your relationship with others
Being called a bad parent if you want to leave the abusive relationship
I don't want to hurt the person who hurts me by leaving them
The feeling that you lost a big chunk of your life to the abusive person
Leaving an abusive person isn't easy and sometimes isn't over
The trauma bond keeps you lovesick and broken
Can you still like someone who hurt you but not love them?
Are your children being manipulated, too?
If you don't draw the line on how much is too much, you won't have a line
How does an abusive person become an abusive person?
Getting conned into taking an unhealed abuser back
Do mutually abusive relationships have a chance?
The superiority complex of misogynists
When you won't see an emotionally abusive person change
Did you sign up for a life of indentured servitude?
They say they love you but they hurt you anyway
I feel like a bad person for being abusive back
The healed emotional abuser is more than just a behavioral change
Do we talk about divorce during the argument or the calm period
Do I accept that this is how theyll be forever
When its impossible to get away from all the toxic behavior
Dont call them what they really are, it will work against you
Total defeat and burnout in the emotionally abusive relationship
When you are a captive audience to the emotionally abusive monologuer
Ive stopped being abusive, let's have sex
Don't gaslight yourself into thinking you're the abuser
The feelings of guilt and shame after leaving the abusive person
Breaking the trauma bond can be hard as hell
Can you heal from severe abuse while still in a severely abusive situation?
Why you may not be ready to call it abuse when it is abuse
Do you end the relationship because they won't?
The breadcrumbing of relationships' past
The language patterns of the abusive person
Can you ever go back to who you were?
Never trust someone who wants to change who you are
The love of my life is the abuser in my life
Can someone change even after they've done something terrible to you?
You being the center of their attention is most of the problem
When someone wants to change who you are
The empty threats that keep the abuse cycle alive
Trying to figure out who the emotionally abusive person really is in the relationship
When a relationship is not a relationship
Don't lock yourself into a worse situation
Why abusive people need to maintain power and control over you
Those who hurt you have poor coping skills so give them a break... right?
The gradual shift from who you were to who you became in the emotionally abusive relationship
The growing resentment that can build when their hurtful behaviors never end
Are you the reason someone is hurtful to you?
When someone destroys what makes you happy
What makes taking a break from the relationship work?
When you can barely take care of yourself let alone give them what they want
When they shower you with love after they've done bad behavior
When you decide enough is enough - the first step isn't the last
What change really looks like when the emotional abuser heals
Feeling discarded when they leave the relationship
When the emotional abuser reaches back out after they've healed and changed
Time with yourself is not only necessary, its required
Emotionally abusive behavior is also physically painful
When the good you do for them leads nowhere
A clever manipulation tactic that makes you believe you are the problem
When you think you're strong enough to get back into the difficult relationship
How emotional abuse can enter your life like an infection
If you don't know your limits, you wont have any
When they go silent and emotionally disconnect from you
Should you give in to their perception of you?
Their past trauma and abuse isn't the immediate issue in the relationship
How do you know when your heart is sealed?
Is taking a break before breaking up the final blow to the relationship?
How you describe the challenges in your relationship can reveal if youre being emotionally abused
Should you make a list of everything they're doing wrong and hand it to them?
Avoid getting trapped into an emotional prison from which you can't escape
What are the chances of an emotional abuser healing and the relationship surviving?
Why they don't stop hurting you when they see you hurting
When parents get involved in your difficult relationship
Religious Abuse: When they use your beliefs and faith against you
When they believe they've changed
LAA Insights - The kids in between the breakup from the toxic manipulative partner
The huge wall the emotional abuser puts up
The battles that drain your power
What will it take to finally get them to stop?
Is just functioning together good enough
When you find yourself crawling back to them over and over again
LAA Insights - Learning what attracts the hurtful people
LAA Insights - Is he right about me being the abuser?
Bonding with people that traumatize you
Can depression be used for manipulation?
The abuser that sneaks their way into your heart and life in order to lock you in to a controlling relationship
Can you find yourself after they stop the hurtful behavior?
Healthy responses to their frustrations and annoyances
The thoughts and beliefs that allow toxic behavior to seep into your relationship
The needy and clingy people that become emotionally abusive
When your friends and family get convinced you're the hurtful one
Is telling them you're leaving better than just leaving?
Is an emotional affair okay when you can't get your needs met?
Afraid of staying and afraid of leaving
The type of person that doesn't deserve a second chance
When you want them to hurt
When the emotionally abusive person leaves the relationship
When you want it to be over and they don't
Subtle abusive behavior is meant to hurt you in a very specific way
Who are you when you're not in a toxic relationship?
Is there an easy way to help someone understand they are being emotionally abusive?
Some people would rather hurt you than be vulnerable with you
Knowing the difference between emotional abuse and normal relationship difficulties
How many times does someone have to hurt you before you decide enough is enough?
Letting hurtful words or threatening comments become the new normal
Six reasons you may feel guilty about leaving an emotionally abusive person
Don't let emotional abuse take your decisions away
What's acceptable behavior in the relationship?
Is it reactive abuse or a normal response to emotionally abusive behavior?
What is emotional abuse? How do I know when it's time to leave? And other important questions.
Can you be in a toxic relationship for so long there's no turning back?
Do they benefit from your response to their hurtful behavior?
The slow disintegration of the deepest part of who you are
The guilt from believing you could have done more
You have to protect the most important person in your world from hurtful behavior
If you've tried everything to stop the hurtful behavior, what's next?
Sometimes things need to be perfectly lined up to make the big decisions about the relationship
Understanding the addict in the manipulative relationship
Should you try harder to please the emotionally abusive person?
How the emotional abuser takes your empowerment tools away from you
Glossing over the first detail in an argument will make it fall apart fast
You deserve to be treated with nothing less than respect and kindness
Should you share content that talks about emotional abuse with emotionally abusive people?
What do you do when they're gaslighting you?
How incompatibility can lead to hurtful and emotionally abusive behavior
Breaking the patterns of bad behavior that diminish your worth and well-being
Not everyone is going to agree with the decisions you make for yourself
Toxic relationships can disintegrate your strength and confidence, but you can get it back
I want you to change: The toxic elements of the difficult relationship
Emotional abuse drains you and makes you believe terrible things about yourself
You don't have to forgive the person that hurt you
Both sides of emotional abuse: The offensive abuser and the defensive abuser
When boundaries don't work and how to pick the right therapist
Connecting all the dots of emotionally abusive and manipulative behavior
The Turn-Around game: How emotionally abusive people keep you busy explaining and defending yourself
When the emotional abuse stops, can the relationship continue?
When you are triggered by your Facebook friends: Staying out of abusive interactions on social media
Yes, the emotional abuser can change, but...
Understanding the thought process behind manipulative behavior
Dealing with adversity and toxic behavior in all your relationships
Emotionally abusive behavior breaks apart what could be a good relationship
You will never, ever be good enough for a manipulative and controlling person
Kind words carefully crafted to plant the seed of guilt and shame
Why you get conned into the psychologically abusive relationship
How to stop being hurtful and controlling with the people you love
An analysis of emotional abuse: Breaking down the bad behavior
Is your response to their bad behavior emotional abuse?
When someone tarnishes your good name and reputation - The Smear Campaign
If you leave me, I'll kill myself - The ultimate abuse of your empathy and compassion
When you love the emotional abuser so much you won't leave
Don't show them how crazy you feel and sharing custody with the emotional abuser
Emotional Abuse explained for your friends, family, attorney, therapist or anyone else that may need to know what you're experiencing
The toxic relationship alters your view of reality making you think your future is dark
You can't fix emotional abuse, you can only heal yourself and hope they do the same
How judgment in relationships destroys love and connection
Identifying the signs of toxic or manipulative behavior while dating
Have they really changed or are they faking it? Learning to differentiate between true change and acting.
It takes two to build and one to destroy: The cheating partner works alone
Are they for real: Is it all lies and deception or are you just going nuts?
Emotionally abusive isolation and how it ensures you lose your friends, family, and support system
In love with someone that wants it both ways: Healing from the obsession over the unhealthy relationship
Stopping the downward spiral of unhealthy communication patterns with self-reflection
There is nothing you could have done differently, emotional abuse would have happened anyway
How you enable manipulative and controlling behavior by being your wonderful self
Yes, there are people that know how to control you and steal your power
The narcissist under the hood - The difficulty of explaining emotional abuse to friends and family
Are you with a manipulative person?
The texts after the breakup: When breadcrumbing keeps you from reaching closure
When manipulative people change your reality: Crazymaking and Gaslighting
Confusing you into submission: A common manipulation you may fall for again and again
Remembering only the good times can sometimes perpetuate the bad times
Selfish people just don't really care about you
Recognizing you are being emotionally abused when you don't see the signs
When you're constantly defending yourself
Are you the manipulative one?
Watching out for emotional predators. Are you being brainwashed into becoming a manipulation or emotional abuse victim?
The "You're too sensitive" game
Don't dismiss the red flags of manipulation and deception
Introduction: The show about unhealthy communication, emotional abuse and manipulation