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Thanks for joining me for another episode of Love and Abuse.

Going to get right to the message I received says,

You've spoken about remembering who you were before the relationship

when you have lost yourself, especially as a result of covert abuse.

What happens if you've been in an abusive relationship from a very young age?

How do you understand what parts of you are who you are and what parts of you are as a result of the abuse?

Thank you for any response. I listen to your podcast frequently. Thank you for any response.

I listen to your podcast frequently.

Thank you for sharing that very important question.

I'm going to look at this again and read this line by line.

You've spoken about remembering who you were before the relationship and when you have

lost yourself, especially as a result of covert abuse,

it can happen with any type of abuse.

But yes, covert abuse is more insidious in many ways because you can't always tell that it's

happening.

So you may be in a covert abusive relationship and you don't even know it.

You just think you're having difficulties with the person that is saying or doing things

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