You are most welcome. I honestly think my experience with my most recent ex-boyfriend has changed me a lot. I used to think how can people put up with physical abusers, and I'm glad that I didn't, but what I learned is that abusers don't start off with physical abuse, they start off with emotional, and verbal abuse, move on to gaslighting, and eventually graduate to physical violence.
It's truly diabolical the way abusers like to isolate their victims from support systems like family, friends, and any community organizations that the victim may be involved with. If the victim wants to work then the abuser wants the victim to stay home and be dependent on them, and if the victim is unable to work for some reason then the abuser instills it into the victim that the victim is lazy, and malingering. Whatever the abuser's wants to do the abuser will insist that it's wrong somehow, because it's all about control.
Would all men see me that way?
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You are most welcome. I honestly think my experience with my most recent ex-boyfriend has changed me a lot. I used to think how can people put up with physical abusers, and I'm glad that I didn't, but what I learned is that abusers don't start off with physical abuse, they start off with emotional, and verbal abuse, move on to gaslighting, and eventually graduate to physical violence.
It's truly diabolical the way abusers like to isolate their victims from support systems like family, friends, and any community organizations that the victim may be involved with. If the victim wants to work then the abuser wants the victim to stay home and be dependent on them, and if the victim is unable to work for some reason then the abuser instills it into the victim that the victim is lazy, and malingering. Whatever the abuser's wants to do the abuser will insist that it's wrong somehow, because it's all about control.