Welcome to Love and Abuse, the show about navigating the difficult relationship,

from simple disagreements to emotionally abusive behaviors.

You deserve respecting kindness.

All the information on this show is meant for educational purposes only.

Always seek a professional for your mental health and well-being, and always pick your battles wisely.

I'm your host, Paul Koliani.

Welcome to another episode of love and abuse.

I am glad that you were here.

I'm glad there are resources out here like this for you.

That sounds like I'm patting myself on the back,

but really there are many resources out there, especially nowadays, about emotionally abusive behaviors and what to look for, how to deal with them.

And this is my part in this entire world of difficult relationships in helping you trying to figure things out and get through these challenges.

And today is a very interesting one,

in my personal opinion,

it's very interesting because I've been thinking about

how emotional abuse and the behaviors act like an infection.

There are four stages to an infection.

And I'm going to use the context of infection for the content of this episode because I was

able to look at the four stages and realize that it's so close on how emotionally abusive behaviors affect the person that gets into a relationship with somebody who does these things.

So I'm going to go over these four stages and explain, it doesn't sound very exciting, I know, but I'm going to explain it

in a way that if you've been through the initial stages, you're going to relate. You're going to

understand what I'm talking about, and you'll get it as I go along. But I'm going to go through my

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