Does Your Partner Use Emotional Distancing to Justify Harmful Behavior?

When I was working on my degree in clinical psychology, I lived in a small apartment with paper thin walls in Vista, California.
The neighbors who lived on the west side of my apartment were a young couple in their twenties. To say that their relationship had problems is like saying if you fall into [...]

Verbal Abuse, Emotional Abuse – Overt and Covert

Our society is filled with verbal and emotional abuse, from radio and TV commentators and presidential candidates, to parents, educators, employers and managers. As Patricia Evans states in “The Verbally Abusive Relationship”, the old adage, “Sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never hurt me,” is not at all true. Just as [...]