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. Welcome to love and abuse.

I am happy that you're here.

Thank you for joining me just to let you know all the information on love and abuse is meant for educational purposes only.

Always seek a professional for your mental health and well-being.

And like I said, I am happy that you're here.

I'm really happy that you tuned in because you're either looking for information like this because you're in a relationship that requires you to get some more resources or knowledge on how to handle toxic situations or poisonous communication.

Or the other side of that is you are looking to help yourself because you believe you may have

some of these qualities.

Mainly I talk to the person that is dealing with the type of behavior that I just mentioned.

The person is dealing with the toxic behavior or poisonous behavior of someone else.

And I give you tools to work with so that you can hopefully have a better line of communication

and maybe a path to healing.

And I think that anyone that tunes into a show like this, whether they're on one side of the

coin or the other, probably needs

a path to healing, or at least dealing. Dealing in the sense of dealing with the behavior

and trying to figure out how to not have that behavior in their life. And how do we get rid of that behavior? So if you're a

first-time listener, this is the reason I'm telling you this. If you're a long-time listener,

then welcome back and I appreciate you tuning in again. I know a lot of people wait for the

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