Are you in a verbally abusive relationship?
A verbally abusive relationship is not just limited to your spouse or partner. It could very well extend to people around you like your family, coworkers, firends etc. If someone, anyone whom you’re in romantic or non romantic relationship with calls you names, puts you down, threatens you or is overly criticizing of you, chances are you’re in a verbally abusive relationship. Here are a few common themes or signs of abuse to be aware of:
- It’s difficult to have a conversation without it exploding in swearing and angry name calling.
- If degrading adverbs are always directed at you, conversations doen't have to end in name calling.
- You're always being criticized.
- If name calling or degrading remarks aren’t directed at you, they are directed at the ones or things you love.
- You’re being verbally undermined when it comes to your looks, your actions or the things you care about.
This is just a short list of the signs of a verbally abusive relationship.This is not an extensive list of signs of abuse. And you might have noticed that none of these are actually physical. A relationship ould still be very damaging, even if physical damange isn't part of it. A verbally abusive relationship us equally damaging if not more. That's because, unlike the evident symptoms of physical abuse, verbal abuse had none. And so it could quietly and dangerously sneak into your relationship.
If you think you might be in such a relationship, get help quick. If you don’t take quick action odds are that this might escalate to a physically abusive relationship and you might get hurt.
Next time we'll get into the details of the verbally abusive relationship symptoms. Remmember, educating yourself about verbally abusive relationships is the first step to resolving this. The best way to avoid further developments is to take immediate action to resolve this.
