Well, hello and welcome to this episode of the Terry Cole show.

This happens to be part two of a two port series of this podcast.

So part one was identify and manage abuse enablers.

And in part two of identify and manage abuse enablers,

I'm giving you a bunch of boundary scripts.

I'm ready to be talking about empowering actions that you can take.

So if you have heard this in your lifetime,

when you tell someone that the person you're in a relationship with or your friend

hurt your feelings or betray you and the other person says, well,

if you hadn't provoked them, they probably wouldn't have done that.

Or don't you know they had a terrible childhood?

What's wrong with you?

Or you're just too sensitive or I've never had an issue with them.

I don't know what your deal is.

Or I don't think it was that bad or stopping a drama queen.

I could keep going.

I will not.

But there are so many ways that people can diminish and invalidate our experiences.

And in the last episode, I talk about why they do it.

But in today's episode, I'll recap a little bit what the common tricks and

justification abuse enablers use to keep the abuse in place of the abusers,

like doing the bidding for the abuser.

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