Conheça os sinais de abuso emocional e físico e saiba como se proteger de padrões tóxicos nas relações com o seu parceiro, amigos ou família.
Throughout your life you may encounter people who take advantage of your insecurities so they make them bigger, never allowing you to have self-confidence or to love the person you are. They use verbal abuse in the form of sarcasm to make it all seem like it’s a joke but you’re always the one who…
As much as we would like to ignore it, domestic abuse is real and it’s happening every day. We could be victims without even knowing it, or maybe ignoring it, because not everyone is strong enough to walk away from their abuser. It’s the person we fell in love with, it’s the person we dedicated…
Living through an emotionally and physically abusive relationship was the hardest experience of my young life. You never think a relationship like that will happen – let alone define you. I always used to cast judgment on stories I’d heard of women who stayed in these poisonous partnerships. I used to ask myself, “Why don’t…
How long would you last in an abusive relationship? Would you be able to leave the first time something happened, even though you would be leaving a man you loved? Could you learn to keep your mouth shut because you felt like you had to? Keep it in and keep quiet. I’ve dealt with the…
No one ever tells you this. No one warns you. They all have something to say while you’re in this kind of a relationship, but they all keep quiet when you break free from one. It’s not that easy. One should expect happiness and joy. No one expects fear, confusion, and the inability to continue…
When you first enter a relationship with an emotional psychopath, you have no idea you are dealing with a sick and dangerous man. Even when you realize you are not living the life you are supposed to live and which you deserve, you hope against hope you can ‘fix’ him and turn him into something…
Dear “Savior”, Who would have thought I will be thanking you after all you have done to me? Isn’t life full of surprises? One moment you are dying inside and the other one you are finally free—you are the happiest person alive. Well, my dear, thank you for giving me the gift of freedom. Thank…
A relationship with a hidden abuser is like being sucker-punched over and over again but never realizing that you were in a fight for your life until it’s over. Sometimes, we fall so hard for a person, we don’t really have the ability to see how toxic that person is for us. We tend not…