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...
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...
What the Bible Really Says About Relationships That Cause Harm Dearest friend, if you have spent any time in church, or in a faith-based community, there is a chance that, at some point, someone handed you Scripture and told you to stay, submit, forgive, try harder,...
How Toxic Relationships Develop: The Slow Slide You Did Not See Coming If someone had told you at the very beginning that you would end up here, feeling confused, exhausted, and like you had somehow lost yourself, you likely would not have believed them. Because at...
When Love Hurts: What a Toxic Relationship Really Is Maybe you didn’t have a word for it. You just knew that something felt off, that you walked on eggshells more days than not. Constant apologizing and adjusting became your way of life as you tried to keep life calm...