Are you living with an emotional bully?

Are you living with an emotional bully? This is abusive behavior that has long lasting effects and can cripple you for life. This is behavior you can stop.

1. Understand that abusive behavior is psychological as well as physical.

-Emotional bullies are abusive, verbally and mentally. Remember, no one just gets up one day and just hits another person. Abuse is gradual and builds over time. All physical abuse started out as emotional abuse.

2. Immediately set boundaries. You are being bullied because you allow it.

-Sometime when the abuse has been going on for awhile, you are very isolated, without friends and family. This is what the abuser is counting on. Reach out and ASK for help – from anyone who will listen!!

3. Going for the jugular is a sign of emotional abuse. It destroys people and relationships and nothing good can come of it.

-When your most sacred secrets are used as a weapon to hurt you, you are being abused. There is nothing uglier than this. It is a betrayal of all that is loving and good.

4. Use discipline and do not participate in the interchange. Leave the room; go for a drive, if necessary.

-There is only one way to survive and that is not to engage on any level. I know it is difficult to walk away, but the only way to stop the abuse is to not participate on any level.

5. Seek professional help if you cannot change the situation on your own.

-Once you do this – the rest will follow. This is the first step in the long process of healing.

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