When you're constantly defending yourself
Love and Abuse
Paul Colaianni
4.6 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Do you spend all your energy defending yourself with certain people? Can you never get ahead with them because they continue to paint you into a corner where you feel you have no choice but to correct them about what you've done or who you are? It may be time to stop defending yourself and start realizing exactly what the game is so you don't fall for it anymore.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to love and abuse, the show about navigating the difficult relationship, |
| 0:05.5 | from simple disagreements to emotionally abusive behaviors. |
| 0:08.6 | You deserve respecting kindness. |
| 0:11.0 | All the information on this show is meant for educational purposes only. |
| 0:14.4 | Always seek a professional for your mental health and well-being, and always pick your battles wisely. |
| 0:19.6 | I'm your host, Paul Koliani. |
| 0:25.4 | All right, welcome to the show. This is the official podcast for the mean workbook over at |
| 0:29.9 | love and abuse.com. That is the healing and assessment guide for difficult relationships. |
| 0:34.4 | And the show is all about relationships, but not necessarily only romantic. It's |
| 0:39.4 | about any type of relationship that you have, where there's any type of manipulative or coercive or |
| 0:44.1 | emotionally abusive language or behavior. And this show is here to help you understand it, |
| 0:49.8 | get through it, and figure out what to do with it. because when people show up in our lives that display |
| 0:56.2 | this toxic behavior, we're often sucked into some sort of game or control mechanism that is hard |
| 1:04.8 | to get out of. Emotional abuse is very hard to get out of because we don't know the game is being |
| 1:09.9 | played on us. |
| 1:18.0 | And today I want to talk about something specific in emotional abuse, and that is, I don't even know if there's a term for it. I've been thinking about what I could call this. And if there |
| 1:21.5 | is a term for this, let me know. You can write to me at Paul at love and abuse.com. But I've come up |
| 1:26.8 | with several terms for this. |
| 1:28.6 | One is truth attrition, which is not catchy at all. |
| 1:32.9 | And one is fact erosion, another one that's not catchy. |
| 1:36.9 | One is thought tackling or brain tackling. |
| 1:40.6 | I don't know. |
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