Emotional abuse involves any verbal aggression or dominant behavior and jealous behavior. This kind of abuse is emotional rather than physical and that makes it very dangerous because more often than not people die in silence because it can go unnoticed by those around the victim unless he/she speaks out. We have of cases of suicide today because the victim is undergoing a situation and no one seems to notice or care. This happens because unlike physical abuse, there is no visible sign.
The victim’s emotions here are well manipulated to suit the abuser’s need. It gets to a point whereby the victim becomes overly dependent on the abuser and his/her emotional needs no longer matter. In emotional abuse, we allow someone else define who we are.
Sometimes verbal abuse can be so bad that you actually start believing what your partner says. You begin to think you are stupid, ugly and fat. You agree that nobody else will ever want to be in a relationship with you. Constantly being criticized and told you aren’t good enough causes you to lose confidence and lowers your self-esteem. As a result you may start to blame yourself for your partner’s abusive behavior. (CURTSEY: www.loveisrespect.org/types-of-abuse/what-is-emotional-verbal-abuse)
The truth is that emotional abuse is never your fault and you don’t deserve it. A partner uses that to keep the victim trapped in the relationship. There is no point staying in a relationship that is slowly draining the life out of you. You should talk to someone about it, be it a family member, friend or someone you trust. You cant continue being in a place or situation where you are treated as less than you are. You deserve more. There are a lot of people out there ready to give you what you yearn for. Though as the saying goes “life gives you what you demand and not what you deserve as it ought to be”.
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