Never trust someone who wants to change who you are
Love and Abuse
Paul Colaianni
4.7 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
You walk into an emotionally abusive relationship as one person, but where do you go after you're in one for a while? Is the person you're with trying to change you into someone you're not?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Love and Abuse, the show about navigating the difficult relationship. |
| 0:05.0 | You deserve respect and kindness. |
| 0:07.5 | All the information on this show is meant for educational purposes only. |
| 0:10.9 | Always seek a professional for your mental health and well-being, and always pick your battles wisely. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm your host, Paul Koliani. |
| 0:23.3 | Honestly, I am terrible at Instagram. |
| 0:26.5 | I just start the show with that. |
| 0:29.5 | I'm terrible at it. |
| 0:30.9 | Even though I have an account, |
| 0:32.6 | Love and Abuse Podcast, |
| 0:34.4 | Instagram account. |
| 0:35.8 | But every now and then I'll try to post something. So if you're on |
| 0:38.9 | Instagram and you want to follow me, I do try. I try to post things. But the reason, the reason I brought |
| 0:45.8 | that up is because I posted, one of the last things I posted was when someone tells you who you are, |
| 0:54.0 | instead of asking who you are |
| 0:56.8 | they reveal more about themselves than you and someone commented on it and said hey this should be an |
| 1:05.4 | episode and so this is the episode it might only be minutes long, but it is the episode because it is 100% true. |
| 1:17.7 | If somebody tells you who you are instead of asking who you are, or even better, if they don't accept who you are, it reveals everything about them. |
| 1:28.6 | It reveals more about them than you. |
| 1:31.9 | And the reason I say that and the reason it's so important and the reason I want you to burn it into your brain |
| 1:37.2 | is so that you don't feel unlovable, unworthy, unimportant. |
| 1:49.0 | You don't feel less than you really are. I don't want you to feel that way. If that's going through your mind, if that's in your heart, like you |
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