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 love and abuse.

I've been doing this since 2019, trying to help you through any difficulties in your relationship.

Talk a lot about control and manipulation and emotionally abusive behaviors.

And just a quick note, a lot of people don't understand what emotional abuse looks like.

And in fact, they see the word abuse and they believe that it's not describing what they're going through because it has that word.

But there are a lot of behaviors

that fit in the emotional abuse bucket. Just one behavior, for example, might be someone who's

really critical or judgmental toward you. And when you're with somebody who's supposed to love

and support you and care about you and want to see you happy,

but instead they're critical and judgmental and making you feel bad, then that's an abuse

of your emotions. It's changing how you feel, changing how you feel about yourself,

just changing how you feel in general.

And it's like a disintegration of your happiness.

And I hate to see that.

And it's just something that I've been coming on for years trying to share with the world, share with you,

in hopes that you'll be able to identify behaviors and maybe even call them out.

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