Love and Abuse
Helping you identify toxic communication, emotional abuse, manipulation, and other forms of difficult behavior in relationships. Love and Abuse offers the perspective of both the victim and the perpetrator.
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- 6
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- Sep 10, 2026
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- Jul 9, 2026
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Can you get past more aggressive or physical abuse? (opens the original)
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Physical abuse is the totality of all abuse in one package. It's violent and extremely damaging. And the victim of such aggressive behavior can literally be scarred for life. I hope you never experience anything like it. But if you have, this episode may be helpful to you.
When the relationship boundaries are broken a second time (opens the original)
Someone's obsession of you can be disastrous (opens the original)
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It can feel amazing when someone focuses entirely on you, supporting you, helping you achieve whatever makes you happy... until it turns into a nightmare.
Isolating you from everything and everyone, leaving you a shell of your former self (opens the original)
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Isolation is one of the more destructive forms of emotional abuse, yet many people don't realize it's happening. They simply notice they no longer feel happy or fulfilled. Understanding how isolation works gives you the foundation to make decisions from a place of empowered knowledge instead of from a place someone else has put you in.
They call me names, put me down, tell me how pathetic I am - I guess I'm the problem.mp3 (opens the original)
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Are you the problem if nothing you do is ever right or good enough? Could they possibly be right about everything they're saying? If you believe this, please listen to this episode. It might just save you a lot of doubt and confusion.
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