Search Results: emotional abuse in children
What are the chances that my boyfriend is a sociopath?
I just wanted to preface this by saying that I love my boyfriend (we haven't said I love you yet though). He is a good man who treats me right and provides me with everything I want/need. He's hard-working and has a lot...
Do parents have a right to change the passcode on their child's mobile device (cell phone)?
Allow me to elaborate: My auntie was previously my guardian, which she is not anymore, as my brother is taking me in, due to her terribly wretched personality, emotional abuse, and verbal abuse. Although my life has...
My family doesn't view me as equal because I have different beliefs? Should I ban my family?
My family doesn't view me as equal because I have different beliefs and I get along with everyone? They criticize everything I do I support the gays, abortions and people who drugs. I mean drugs may be bad, but it's not...
People are hesitant to date kids who had divorced parents?
Is this true? My parents aren't divorced but they have a bad marriage. My home was always miserable and there's emotional abuse going on between my parents and my dad emotionally abuses my siblings and me. Especially me....
Afraid of older men?
When I was a kid my dad’s moods were really volatile and I was either the “golden child” or being yelled at for being “disrespectful” (never figured out what was meant by that). There was no physical abuse of any kind...
How do I handle being kind of feminist?
I'm not all the way feminist but I do believe in emotional abuse and mental abuse. Such as a man being a womanizer and manipulator. This is why I didn't give my last ex the opportunity to get married with me. Not even to...
Guys age 25+ ... I ask you for help for a serious question. How to love?
This is strange, but I do not know how to love men. Im sexually attracted to them and have felt love, as well as fallen in love... But I don't understand it. My dad hates women and I was sexually abused as a child by a...
Are there any single parents out there?
I'm 7 months pregnant and the father of the twin boys left us the other day. I'm in shambles now. I want our boys to grow up with a loving family, a mom and a dad and both sides of the family. I never had that growing...
LONG - Domestic violence - Past & Present.
Back in 1995, I married a highly abusive man to which I was abused in every sense of the word for 13 years. Born of the marriage were a set of twin girls who are now 14 years old. To date, I have SOLE custody and access...
Witnessing verbal and emotional abuse in home, can anyone give advice or share past experience?
I am sure someone has been in that situation where you are living with your parents and they are married and unhappy. Regular bickering is bad, but here there is emotional and verbal abuse going on, and it hurts me so...
Did I just get used as an emotional crutch...?
We've both been in abusive relationships. He just got out of his 6 months ago. We started out as friends. He jokingly called me his therapist, as I would help him. I knew he was talking to other women when we first met....
Why am I so sensitive?
In the worst way possible, ever since I was a kid, I was a total cry baby. I would cry over the most trivial things, and no I was never spoiled, if anything I had 4 older brothers and I got everything handed down from...
Can a single man adopt a child?
I'm a 28 year old unmarried man, and I have no intention or marrying or even getting into a relationship, because I have been badly hurt emotionally by women, and those have left very deep emotional scars which will...
Have I become the bad guy, or am I just morally gray?
I'm...having a bit of a moral dilemma, possibly a crisis of identity. I don't know whether or not I'm the good guy anymore, or if I have just become morally gray. I used to be a bright eyed optimistic, love, life, and...
Emotional Abuse...A Weighted Issue!
Hey! OK so I'm just getting to really deal with this issue I've been dealing with my whole life. I've forgiven my father but really dealing with the after effects I never did, thinking forgiving would make it all go away....
Busting Myths About Modern (Non-Extreme) Feminism
Feminism is a widely debated topic of today. However, what exactly is it? Many people are unsure of what feminism means (besides the women’s suffrage movement and others of the 20th century) and do not understand how it...
Promoting happiness vs promoting resilience in society?
I work in mental health and note that I am more recently seeing high numbers of young people struggling with self-esteem issues, anxiety, depression and personality disorder traits. Current statistics would seem to...
Friend Zone Checklist
Friend Zone Check list...You already know your are friend zoned when... 1. You are posting on the forum asking if you’re in the friend zone (if you need to ask then you probably are) 2. You’ve never explicitly let...
Have you ever been in a physically abusive relationship with a significant other?
This goes both ways. Have you ever been in an abusive relationship? Were you the abusee or the abuser? This goes for the men out there too. Have you ever abused a girlfriend/spouse or had your girlfriend/spouse abuse...
My theory about atheists
So I've been reading a lot about the psychology behind atheism. I even tried debating some of them on YouTube for a while, and I think I've come to a conclusion. While a lot of them believe in the law of attraction and...
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