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.

Thank you for joining me for another episode of love and abuse, and I hope that you are listening to this to help you understand your relationship better and understand the person that you're trying to communicate

with better.

And I think there's a bottom line to everything that I teach over here.

And that is, this is going to sound like I'm not very sensitive to certain things, but I'm

going to say it anyway.

I think self-respect is the most important form of respect and form of self-nurturing that you

can do.

Giving yourself respect and showing yourself respect and putting up a wall that no one can cross

unless they respect you is one of the most powerful and important steps you can take in your life.

And I said that it may sound like I'm insensitive to certain things because maybe you

do respect yourself and maybe you're taking this as you don't respect yourself enough to let

others come through. And I'm not trying to say that at all. I'm trying to say that when you feel this way about yourself, when you

feel so strongly that you deserve to be treated with respect, then no matter what happens,

if somebody comes along and doesn't do that, you're either going to say something about it

or move away. Get away from the person, try to avoid

them, try to protect yourself from them. And there are probably other options there, but the two

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