Connecting all the dots of emotionally abusive and manipulative behavior

Love and Abuse

Paul Colaianni

Mental Health, Lies, Emotional, Health & Fitness, Psychological, Society & Culture, Deception, Manipulation, Narcissism, Verbal, Abuse, Relationships

4.6 • 816 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Sometimes you just can't figure out if perhaps what you're experiencing is abusive or manipulative behavior. You may even think perhaps you're overreacting or seeing things wrong. In this episode, I analyze an email I received and pick out the specific behaviors that I would call emotional abuse. Love and abuse is the official podcast of The M.E.A.N. Workbook at loveandabuse.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to Love and Abuse, the show about helping you identify poisonous communication and toxic behavior.
0:07.4	You deserve to be treated with respect and kindness.
0:10.9	That's why it's important that you learn to pinpoint manipulative and controlling behavior so that you keep your power and your sanity.
0:18.6	I'm your host, Paul Koliani.
0:31.2	Music power and your sanity. I'm your host, Paul Koliani. Welcome to another episode of love and abuse. I just want to remind you that all information
0:36.2	on this show is meant for educational
0:37.7	purposes only and always seek a professional for your mental health and well-being. And I hope you
0:43.9	are mentally healthy and being well. Thanks for joining me. And I'm going to go right into an email
0:50.3	that I received. And it has a bunch of talking points in it. So I'm going to address them as I
0:58.3	read this email. And I think if you listen to this show for the reasons I think you listen to
1:04.7	this show, you're going to relate to quite a few of these, if not just a few or all of them.
1:11.3	I hope that you get some value from what we're talking about today.
1:14.8	It has to do with a woman that breaks up and then gets back together with her boyfriend,
1:22.2	and then breaks up again and then gets back together.
1:25.2	And her boyfriend, she believes, must be narcissist or emotionally abusive or something.
1:32.5	And she's not sure what to do.
1:34.6	She's afraid.
1:35.7	And she's not sure what to believe because this is what happens when you get into any type of relationship where it seems that no matter how hard you try to work
1:47.8	on the relationship, it never works or it never reaches the level of happiness or satisfaction.
1:54.5	In fact, it sometimes goes the opposite way. You break up and you realize, oh, I love that person
1:59.8	and then you want to get back together thinking, well, they're being nice now.
2:04.5	They're being kind to me.
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