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 so glad that you are here,

and I also want to do my best to help you through whatever you're going through,

whatever challenge you're dealing with in a relationship.

So if you've not heard this show before, that's what I'm here to help you do and to help you get through.

Today we have a challenge that I'm going to read to you.

Somebody wrote and said, I am so grateful to have found your page.

I am desperate for help.

Please, I'm deeply in love with emotionally abusive man who is tortured by emotional pain,

but he doesn't see the ways he is creating that pain by hurting me and others.

He is estranged from his children, and he has failed other relationships,

but will not see that he is the common denominator.

Like you, he grew up with an alcoholic dad who he described as anger was the only emotion he expressed.

It is tragic.

This man is so kind-hearted, but also twisted.

I see his pain.

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