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7 Reasons Why People Stay In Unhealthy Relationships
Looking in different directions but no one moves.Dr. Steve examines why leaving a dysfunctional relationship is so difficult. It’s deeper than you think.— People stay in unhealthy relationships for...
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Defensive Architecture: Designing The Homeless Out Of Our Cities
Embed from Getty ImagesWe need a more systematic and humane approach to homelessness.___By Rowland Atkinson and Aidan WhileOn any one night in London, there around 700 people sleeping in the city’s...
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Helping an Emotionally Damaged Person can be so Hard
Embed from Getty ImagesWhy is an abused dog apparently easier to sympathize with than an abused human being?___The worst thing about it all was the judgment. Even from family. No one could really...
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Having A Rough Childhood Can Affect Your Health As An Adult
Embed from Getty ImagesBy Diane-Ashley KrachI was what you would call a sickly child: severe allergies, persistent throat infections, insomnia, and digestive issues plagued me before the arrival of...
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Why it’s Really Covert Verbal Abuse When Someone is Telling You How You...
Embed from Getty ImagesBy Rhoberta Shaler, PhDCovert verbal abuse happens when a seemingly benign remark goes under your radar. You don’t see it for the emotional abuse it is. You get used to...
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My Boyfriend Is Verbally Abusive. Ask Allana
Q: I am in a sensitive situation. My boyfriend is verbally abusive but always apologizes the next day. Should I leave or give him an ultimatum? A: First, I am so sorry for your situation. Know that you...
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7 Ways to Let Go of Someone Who Treats You Badly
Letting go of toxic relationships is never easy. Yet with self-awareness and tools, you can begin to value yourself enough to set better boundaries with a partner. It is possible to end a romantic...
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Letter To the Church That Stood by My Abusive Husband
There was one point that I considered you my family. I thought you were a safe place full of friends that cared about me, with leadership that would protect me, but most of all I thought you would...
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What I’ve Learned From Working With Male Perpetrators of Domestic Violence
I recently spent some time working with an organisation that had been set up to provide support to women victims of domestic violence, but had decided that an essential part of making life safer for...
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How To Identify an Emotionally Abusive Person
Emotional abuse can occur in any relationship and is especially common in dating and marriage. Whereas in physical abuse, there are often marks on the body as evidence of violence that are easy to...
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4 Bad Reasons Why You Stay In Crappy Relationships
There are a lot of good reasons to work together with your significant other to make a relationship work. If your relationship is running off the rails, it may just take more communication,...
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Most Fathers with a Traumatic Childhood Want to Be Better Fathers than Their...
By Professor Dr. Katja Nowacki Fathers who have had difficult family experiences during their own childhood can be good fathers, successfully trying to be a better parent than their own parents were....
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12 Things You Should Know Before Falling for a Narcissist
What’s the difference between a narcissist and a jerk? They’re both means. But a narcissist is more than just a jerk who’s got some issues. They have grandiose beliefs about self-importance and need...
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10 Types of Bad Men To Avoid at All Costs
Can I just avoid being stuck in the cycle of dating different iterations of the same types of partners? Asked Dianna. The realization that I have been having an endless litany of messy relationships...
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‘Just Leave’
Content Warning: This piece is about domestic violence and abusive relationships and may be triggering. It was January 2018, and I was on the couch with the man who is now my big bad Ex, I’m going to...
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Live in Peace
Each one has to find his own peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. –Mahatma Gandhi Find peace within. According to Merriam-Webster, “rest in peace” is...
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Unhappiness Finds a Way Out
“I think you’re really unhappy,” says my friend. “No, I’m fine,” I say. “I’m just trying to save my marriage.” My friend was right. I was miserably unhappy but somehow admitting this seemed like a...
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Is There a Link Between Overprotective Parenting & Abusive Intimate...
On average it takes a woman seven attempts to leave an abusive man. Yes, that is the reality of the abused woman and the trauma cycle that she lives in believing that what she is experiencing from...
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The Malignant Narcissist’s Successful Hunting Method
I never talk about Dwayne. Partially because I have settled for being grateful that I escaped the relationship with my life. Partially because my mind blocks him off, for the most part. And mainly...
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Dating While Borderline
I tend to write love letters to boys who treat me like crap. This was much cuter when I was much younger. I know, I know. I really should know better by now. Telling some douchebag I love him after...
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