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 want to let you know that you're not stupid.

You're not going crazy.

You're not confused. You're sensing something is wrong or off. I'm talking to

those of you who in a difficult relationship, maybe an emotionally abusive relationship,

where you're trying to figure out what you're not getting or what you're getting wrong or

maybe you're taking the blame for somebody else's behavior because they say that you are causing

the problems but you can't figure it out but they're smart so you maybe you just should believe

them when the reality is something else is going on.

I'm telling you this because I get a lot of messages from people, including those in the

mental health field that not only are learning about emotional abuse and all that it entails,

but are sometimes in or have been in emotionally abusive

relationships.

And they didn't realize it until it was too late.

Some of them realized it, but they wanted to work things out or work things through because

maybe they could fix it or maybe they could help the other person or just

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