So. . . what if your happily-ever-after isn’t? Your marriage, or civil union, or cohabitation smacks more of poisoned apples than magic, life-giving kisses. But you can’t, or choose not to, leave the castle. Your current version of the fairy tale is that your white-picket-fence fantasy has become a chain link reality that you don’t much like.
Author: Michael Strelcheck “Recognizing The Emotions Of Being Abused” The aftermath of an incident of abuse is often physically apparent to the victim, but what is not so obvious is the emotional damage. Modern psychology has long struggled with trying to understand what unexpected trauma does to the human psyche. In recent years there has …
It’s a difficult thing to understand why a person would hurt or abuse the ones they love. I know from experience, being physically disciplined as a young child, that being victimized by a loved one (my father) is an emotionally traumatic experience. Although I felt that my father loved me, I couldn’t understand what I saw (and felt) in his angry behaviors …