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.

I receive a lot of messages from people in very challenging situations,

and sometimes it's hard to direct you,

if you're in that situation or direct anyone that reaches out to me and asks a question like I'm completely stuck if they ask a question where they are in a situation

that they're completely stuck they can't go anywhere they are in like a relationship that they have no means to be independent.

No means to get out of it if they want to and feel powerless, feel out of control of their own life.

And there are limited options sometimes.

Sometimes you are limited in your options.

And so what can somebody like me or anybody that you talk to or listen to or watch or read

anything out there, any kind of resource?

What are the magic words that you need to hear? What do you need to

hear for you to take the next right step for you? And I do my best. I come on the air and I do my

best to help you through these powerless places when you're in a

powerless place. One of the messages that I received is a person in a powerless place, at least

from their perspective and from what they conveyed to me. This person's been in an emotionally

abusive relationship for the last two decades.

I know a lot of people listening now can relate to that.

And they actually separated for a while.

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