Welcome to Love and Abuse, the show about helping you identify poisonous communication and toxic behavior.

You deserve to be treated with respect and kindness.

That's why it's important that you learn to pinpoint manipulative and controlling behavior so that you keep your power and your sanity.

I'm your host, Paul Koliani.

Thank you. power and your sanity. I'm your host, Paul Koliani. Hey, welcome back to another episode of love and abuse and I'm glad you're here. I'm glad

you joined me. Today I want to talk about something I was going to say

important, but all of these episodes are important. This is important though. I want to make sure that

you're not being brainwashed into becoming a victim of emotional abuse or manipulation or coercion

or any of that stuff that we don't want to be

victim to. So this episode is all about watching out for the emotional predators. I don't know if that's

a real term. I just used it in this episode, but I think of it in terms of like the grooming process

that child predators do to children. So if a child predator

wants to sexually abuse a child, then what they'll do is put the child and their immediate

family and friends through a grooming process. And that's basically preparing them for the abuse.

Now, it's probably not fair to compare these two things,

but there's similarities that I want to point out

because if you know what to look for,

then you'll know if you are being groomed or not

for some sort of emotional predatory practice. I don't want you to be sucked

into some predator's game where you get sucked into some type of relationship that now you feel

stuck and you can't get out. What are the signs? What can you look for? As we go through all

these episodes of love and abuse i'm going to

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