Verbal Abuse: When Words Became Weapons Sticks and stones was a lie. We learned that rhyme as children, maybe even chanted it on the playground, trying to convince ourselves that words couldn’t really wound us. But somewhere between that childhood belief and the...
What Is Emotional Abuse and Why It Is Just as Real as Physical Harm Because it leaves no bruise, emotional abuse is often dismissed, by the person experiencing it as much as by those around her. This article affirms what you may have suspected: it is real, it causes...
The God Who Sees What Happens Behind Closed Doors One of the loneliest parts of surviving an abusive relationship is the sense that no one truly knows what happened behind closed doors. But God was there. He saw it all. In fact, not one moment escaped His attention,...
Why It Is So Hard to See Clearly When You Are Inside a Toxic Relationship There is a moment, sometimes it comes in the car, sometimes in the quiet of a morning you have to yourself, sometimes in the middle of a counselor’s office, when a woman looks back at what she...
The Cycle of Abuse: What Kept You There (And Why It Was Never Your Fault) If you ever thought “this time it will be different,” only to find yourself back at the beginning, the same place you had been before, you were not failing. You were caught in a...
When Something Feels Wrong in Your Relationship: A Guide When You Knew Something Was Wrong But Could Not Name It There is a particular kind of loneliness in knowing, deep in your spirit, that something is very wrong, but having no language for what it is. You...
