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.

Thanks for joining me for another episode of love and abuse, and I'm going to say this right out.

I hear you.

I can hear your words.

I can hear your thoughts. Not really, but you know what I mean. your words. I can hear your thoughts.

Not really, but you know what I mean.

I understand what you're going through.

For those that needed to hear that, that's what I wanted to tell you because I hear from a lot of people. And they say, I feel alone.

I feel alone in my struggles. I feel like no one understands what's going on.

And it's so great that, you know, they write to me and they say, it's so great that you put into words what I'm going through.

And it touches me. And I received a really long letter. And I wanted to acknowledge that, acknowledge that person that I hear you.

I validate your experience and you are not going crazy.

I say at the end of every show, you're not going crazy.

You are experiencing this.

And to that person who wrote and shared, I shared her thoughts and her

struggles, I understand what you're going through. I hear your struggle. I feel it when you

share. And I also want to validate that your experience is not unique, because that was her question

at the end, is my experience unique?

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