Does an Abuser Know They are Abusive? [268]
Flying Free
Natalie Hoffman
5.0 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, I answer more listener questions from women just like you who are trying to figure out what is happening inside of their painful and confusing marriage. If you want to leave a question for me to answer on the Flying Free Podcast, I would love to hear from you! Here are the questions being addressed today:
- Is my husband emotionally abusive or is it possible that he’s just emotionally weak and unavailable due to his own past and trauma that he hasn't dealt with yet?
- Does my husband abuse me on purpose? Does he know what he’s doing?
- How do I know it’s time to leave my abusive husband?
- Has my abusive husband actually changed, or is he a fraud?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now, and you're listening to the |
| 0:09.3 | Flying Free Podcast, a support resource for women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden |
| 0:16.4 | emotional and spiritual abuse. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome to episode 268 of the Flying Free Podcast. You may or may not know that we have a way for you to ask questions if you want to that I can answer on the podcast and that is simply by going to any of the show notes pages of any of the episodes and the links would be in the show notes right here on your favorite podcast app or you can always find an |
| 0:44.0 | episode by just going to flying free now dot com forward slash and then the |
| 0:48.6 | episode number so today's episode is 268 so so Flying Free Now.com forward slash 268. |
| 0:55.0 | And then when you go there, you can actually read the transcripts if you want to. |
| 0:59.0 | And you can also leave a question if you have a question that you'd like me to answer on a future |
| 1:03.1 | podcast now obviously I can't answer every single question that comes in we get a lot of |
| 1:07.0 | them and some of them I've already answered many times before or whatever |
| 1:11.7 | but I try to pick questions I haven't really focused on or maybe |
| 1:15.2 | I've answered them but the person asked with a different angle that I haven't |
| 1:19.3 | maybe covered or probably can't even remember if I've covered it or not. So anyway that's what we're going to do today. I'm going to answer some questions. Let's listen to the first one. |
| 1:28.0 | All right, I just recently found your Flying Free Podcast and been enjoying listening to those and reading some your work and stuff. |
| 1:35.7 | I haven't gotten your book yet but I hope too. I was curious after listening to the one about hidden, like covert hidden emotional abuse. I was just curious. Is that |
| 1:47.5 | always emotional abuse or is it possible that it's just that my husband is emotionally weak, emotionally |
| 1:55.9 | unavailable due to his own past and trauma that he hasn't dealt with yet. |
| 2:01.7 | I guess if he's not willing to deal with it or change, I don't know then is it actually turning into abuse or not? I get confused because there's not a bunch of verbal or seriously obvious abuse happening. |
| 2:16.8 | But I guess some of that covert stuff I really can relate to and very often unhappy and emotionally abandoned is how I feel. |
| 2:27.2 | So anyway, I was just curious about that. |
| 2:30.4 | Is it always emotional abuse or possibly just a weakness in him that I need to support and love and could possibly make better. |
| 2:38.0 | Thank you for your time. |
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