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Healing Emotional Abuse

Emotional abuse can be subtle and it has long-term effects to the person who has experienced constant criticism and accusation. If you have been in an abusive relationship, it would really be hard for you to accept your condition or fix the damage that is caused by emotional abuse. This article will help you identify the problem and work over it.
You would be developing behavioral patterns like remaining aloof, having a low self-esteem and confidence and will make you hate yourself. This is prone to depression and anxiety. The picture of you being abused will linger in your thoughts. You will be carrying this burden throughout your life and it wouldn’t be easy for you.
Emotional abuse can be traumatizing. You have to deal with this too. You would think if only there is something that you can eat that would make it vanish forever! But it does not work that way. It’s really that you have to do the work to re frame your memories and re-shape your mindset.
Here are some steps to help you move on:

 

  • Acceptance is the key! You must accept the face that you have been abused. You will get nowhere if your mind is set into believing that abusive behavior is normal.
  • Stop feeling guilty and blaming everything to yourself!. You are not responsible for the abusive behavior of your partner.
  • What has happened; has happened. In your life, there are bad chapters that you should try to forget.
  • Be confident to yourself and realize your self worth.
  • Love yourself for what you are and try to remember the kind of person you are before.

 

You really can’t make a conscious decision to “forget” your past because healing will come with time. If you think counseling is necessary, then find a good counselor. In time you may find someone else to share your experiences with, but that’s not something you should focus on while you’re healing.

What you can do is use the information in your past to help you with your future. Healing emotional abuse requires patience and trust to yourself and others who can help you. Things would be easier if you are willing to change things in a positive way.

It is important for you to realize that you have to move on and do what you want in your life.

To your happiness,

Neil Warner
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Expressing Anger in a Controlled Way

How do you express your anger?

  • Your get “Hotheaded” and more intensely cursing and throwing things
  • You do not show anger in loud ways but you are chronically irritable and grumpy
  • Or constantly putting others down, criticizing everything, and making cynical comments

The choices above simply shows are a sign that you are lacking more constructively means express your anger. This beaviour isn’t likely to lead to many successful relationships.
It is hard to express anger in a controlled manner. Usually the tendency for most is to explode and rant on.
To some extent, you can do things that will take your mind off the anger.
But do you think walking out of the situaton a healthy way? It is important to express your anger because it will pile up inside you.
Why is it important to express anger? If your anger is not allowed as an outward expression, it can turn inward—on yourself. Rather than confronting them, he gets back at people indirectly, without telling them why. Or displaying hostile and cynical behavior. Worst-Case scenario would be : hypertension, high blood pressure, or depression.
Here are some simple ways to control your anger :

  • By expressing you can say what your needs are, and how to get them, without hurting others.
  • You can suppress your anger by converting it into a more constructive behavior or redirecting and focusing on something positive.
  • You can calm down by controlling your inward and outward behavior, let the feelings subside to avoid health related problems

Remember that anger is a completely normal, human expression of emotion. It can turn into a destructive, unhealthy situation when it gets out of control.

Give yourself the opportunity to express anger in a safe way, without hurting anyone else. Try to forgive the person who wronged you.

Neil Warner

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The Negative Effects of Passive Aggressive Behavior in a Relationship

Do you feel unhappy eventhough you are with someone whom you are supposed to be intimate with? Do you feel that your relationship becomes stressful and hard to deal with?
There could be contributing factors in your relationship with your partner that puts you in an unhappy state. Your partner might be in a matured relationship with you but it is also possible that he has some unresolved issues that makes him hard to deal with. You partner might also never learnt how to accept and manage his anger. You must know the reason why your relationship is in a chaotic situation, if you fail to do so, chances are you will have a hard time dealing with your partner and your relationship as a whole.
In this article, you will realize if you are dealing with passive aggressive partner. This will help you understand your relationship with your partner. If you are able to understand his past, you can regain your integrity and self-respect.
Here are some signs of a person who has a PA behavior:
- Acts passive but aggressively gets what he wants - Agrees up front then doesn’t do what he agreed to and make things complicated in the end - Strikes his anger indirectly - Gets out of the situation where there is confrontation and criticism over an issue - Complaining about anything and thinks deeply how his life is being cursed
A passive aggressive person are emotionally unavailable and they usually do not get very close to anyone. They tend to reject emotional intensity and would find comfort by their inner isolation.
Emotional and contradictory messages can confuse you eventhough you try to be patient and understanding. They blame you for making them angry. As a result, you feel dismissed, ignored and rejected. You do not know how to handle and react on a conflicting situation. If you are in a negative environment, your ability to decide can be affected.
Some situation does not improve because your parner tries to confuse and brainwash you. Over time, you will find yourself violent towards your partner as well, which was not part of your behavior before.
Do you want to be happy in a relationship?

If you answer YES, then you should understand that his reactions have nothing to do with YOU! He would react to whoever tries to enter into his private world. Intimacy and emotional compromise with any woman is what a passive aggressive person fears and not you. When conflict appears, you should know where you stand so you can decide what to do with your life.

To your happiness,
Neil Warner
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How to Stop Uncontrolled Anger from Destroying a Loving Relationship

Is it any wonder that your strong emotion of anger may hurt, destroy, and poison a good relationship?
Can you overcome your anger, instead of being overcome by it? Yes- if you start changing your attitude in mind. You must stop making an excuse for your negative temper. You must bear in mind that anger is your enemy!
Uncontrolled anger can be very devastating. It can reveal your true colors. Anger is a negative emotion and it shatters relationship and breeds violence.

Is It Good To “Let it Rip?”

If you are using this excuse to hurt others, what you do not know is that it escalates anger and it does not help to resolve the situation.

To solve the problem of anger you must recognize the anger within your mind. You must learn how to control your anger by applying practical methods in your daily life.

To stop your uncontrolled behavior, you must know its symptoms. You will learn how to recognize them and stop it at an early stage before it gets worse.

These are the symptoms of uncontrolled behavior:

  • Always thinking about detailed plans to commit acts of violence
  • Threatening others
  • Failing to acknowledge the feelings of others
  • Feeling rejected
  • Withdrawal from friends
  • Loss of temper

So what is the best solution?

You should find out what triggers your anger and then develop strategies to control your anger.

You may also want to ask yourself these questions :

Is your anger important or reasonable enough?

Is it possible that you are responsible for making the situation complicated?

Some ways to help you control your anger:

Anger Management can help you learn to control your reactions or get rid of the things that enrage you

  • Simple relaxation tools can calm down angry feelings such as deep breathing, yoga-like   exercises, visualization of a relaxed experience
  • It helps if you change your environment where you can have a fresh view of things and get away from the usual and irritating place.
  • Choose less hurtful words and don’t say the first thing that comes into your head, think carefully about what you want to say.
  • Use humor to help yourself face them more constructively. Don’t use sarcastic humor because it will still escalate anger
  • Listen carefully to what the other person is saying and take your time before answering.
  • Anger, even when it’s justified, can quickly become irrational so always remind yourself that you’re just experiencing some hard times in your life.

Every problem has a solution. But the best mentality is not to focus on finding the solution, but rather on how you handle and face the problem.

Neil Warner
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How Can Anger Destroy Your Relationship?

Happiness, as we all know, come from the relationship around you.
Experience tells you that It’s not easy to build a lasting relationship. Somewhere along the road, things will get in the way and you find yourself unable to maintain  your relationship.
One of the hindrances in loving relationships is anger. Anger is a strong emotion. It is one thing that is going to do some damage whether you choose to express it or hold it.
What if you have ever loved someone who has never learned to adjust in his surroundings? Can you imagine what your life would be like in the years to come?
There are situations in a relationship where one becomes really angry or always gets angry on anything and it creates a need to try to control everything. Anger can damage a relationship. Anger results to yelling or maybe physical abuse.
You may argue or fight intensely.

But ask yourself:
Does this help our relationship healthy?

Here’s some facts about anger and how it can destroy your relationship:

  • Anger can quickly destroy a relationship that has been good for a long time.
  • Your self-esteem and confidence can be affected by anger.
  • Anger can affect anything especially love, self esteem and trust.
  • - Anger is not a peaceful emotion, it is full of uncertainty and fear, you’ll never know what happens next - Anger makes you say and do things that you will regret for the rest of your life.

If there is too much anger in your present situation or if you are in a relationship with someone who is easily angered, then perhaps you should start thinking if you still have an intimate life with your partner.Because being in a critical situation will make you unhappy and cause more ill feelings towards your partner and eventually would destroy your intimacy.
Trust and honesty can be destroyed by anger so easily and it wears off intimacy in your relationship. Harsh words, criticism and non-acceptance are the causes of anger and it can destroy a loving relationship.

Anger results to negative feelings.

Intimacy vanishes in a relationship if there is constant blaming and criticizing.

Accept and understand eachother to protect a truly valuable emotional bond that you have invested. Do not allow yourselves to erupt without talking what should be done to make things clear. Instead, find ways to discuss it in a civilized manner with a clear mind and open heart.

To your happiness!
Neil Warner,

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How to Forget the Pain Caused by Emotional Abuse

You have a hard time letting go of the past hurt its because you keep on thinking the things that you could have done instead. You will be so much focused on anything that involves blaming yourself for whatever the result of your failed relationship.

You may have suffer emotional abuse at one time or another. However, it is not the place you want to stay.
Do you like being reminded of every pain and sorrow you had? I hope you don’t. But if you do, maybe you have been badly hurt or just afraid to get hurt again. But as you know, if you keep the pain, it will take you nowhere. One thing you should be thankful about being bruised so bad, is that you have learned a lesson from it. You have to trust yourself believing you can overcome this pain.
Trust and faith are needed in moving on. You must have faith in everything. You have to realize it’s not too late. Actually, it's never too late to change and become a better you. You deserve a caring relationship.
So why keep the past pain that bruised, wounded, beaten, and burned you so badly? Take time to heal after all the hurt and pain. Healing requires time and work. Always forgive yourself if you have wronged. It will help you move on.

By moving on with your life, you will come to appreciate people who treats you a lot better, cultivating healthier relationships. There are many people around you who can support you in times when you are finding it hard to cope with your problems. You learn to trust yourself when making careful decisions and choices. New memories will help ease the pain from the past. You may look back, but you can never go back. You can only move forward.

Remember to make yourself happy at all times. Evaluate the things you do with yourself based on whether those thoughts, feelings, and actions are working for your own good. Understanding yourself with compassion is also a key to a happier you. To help you divert your attention, do somthing enjoyable with your loved ones you find supportive.
Getting away from a painful situation, will give you hope and happiness you deserve. Learn to enjoy and appreciate the things you have now. You may not have the things you want, but sometimes the thing you did not expect is what you really wanted after all. Truth is, getting hurt can be good for you. You won’t agree yet if you are still in pain. But when you look back after all the sorrow is gone, you will deeply appreciate the experience and the things you learned from it.

The lessons you get from the pain you have experienced in the past will make you find more positive relationships. Based on what you have experienced, you become aware of every choices and decisions you make. You try to avoid the same people who were responsible for creating those negative and emotional relationships. You should also take responsibility of owning your own relationship. You can not again believe you’re a martyr suffering because of an unworthy partner. Only when you stop seeing yourself as a victim will you start to see yourself in a better way.
You should put in mind that despite what had happened in your past, it is still worth to try another relaionship. You have the chance of getting what you want if only you put yourself on the line. Remember, you lose yourself if you do not venture. Moving on with your life is the best way to have a chance for you to improve your relationship.
{You deserve a happy life}. Getting over the pain and lmoving on willmake you realize your self-worth. Spending more time with yourself is the ultimate in taking care of your well-being. You become a better and stronger person. Make the decision to look after yourself from now on.

To your happiness,
Neil Warner
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Emotional Abuse: How Its Affects You

If you are in an emotionally abusive relationship  for a long time, you may loose your ‘inner compass’ and can become convinced that you are worthless, and that is all your fault, and  you feel like you have nowhere else to go.

Try to honestly answer this questions to yourself:

  • Is your ultimate fear to be left alone, without no one to love you?
  • Do you sacrifice your own wishes, just to please your partner?
  • If your partner abuses you, do you become submissive?
  • Do you do things that you do not like just to make your partner feel good?

If you are in a relationship wherein emotional abuse happens everyday, the effects are dangerous than any form of abuse because it can be frequent. The effects of emotional abuse can be subtle, it makes you feel that you are the problem in the relationship even if you are not. It makes you doubt your self-worth and affects your self-esteem also.

Here are the negative effects of long-term emotional abuse:

  • Low self-esteem
  • Emotional Stress
  • Health Problems
  • Depression
  • Isolation
  • Alcohol or drug use

You may seem introverted, quiet, or may appear confident and extrovert, which is an act to fool the outside world so that you can hide the humiliation you are experiencing. You may have deliberately chosen not to seek help but decided to deal with it. if you continue to have communication with an abusive partner, it can drag you back to the same situation.

You must try to do something if your partner is unwilling to seek help or knowledge.
The recovery process can be long and painful. It may influence your mentality and may decide to hurt yourself. It may result to suicide when dealing with a long-term emotional abuse. You would feel unlovable and unworthy.

Proper counseling will help stop this chain of suffering once and for all.

 

To your happiness,

Neil Warner
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The Top Reason Why You Argue In A Relationship

Do you have the feeling that everyday conflicts are becoming harder to tolerate?

Do you perceive such situations as a battle where you need to defeat the other?

Let’s see why this idea of “winner” and “looser” is at the heart of this constant escalation of arguments…

There are some reasons to explain why you think that  “winning” over an argument will allow you to move on with the problem.

Most of the time it’s just because you have the idea that you fight for a scarce resource; and this forces you to “to win” no matter the costs.

But In order to play this type of conflict you need an “other;” someone or something to act as our opponent or obstacle, the bad one..

The battle scenario would look like this:

  1. The bad one is competing with you for a scare resource.
  2. As result of this situation only one of you can be a winner:
  3. If you attack first, he will counter attack..
  4. If he move first, you will feel compelled to react and ‘defend’ your self.
  5. Whatever course of action, the only possible issue will be escalating the dispute.

Things to note here:

  • Even if you want to avoid the conflict, inaction will create the conditions for the other to do the first move forcing you to react.
  • Unless you step back and find another way, there can not be a real winner. 
    Even if you win over the resources, the price to pay is undermining your relationship.
  • If you too afraid to take action and radically change the way you approach this confrontations, the only option left is to fight.
  • This over time will result to unresolved and escalated confrontation that ends up with both sides isolated and moving in different directions.
  • Failed communication leads to more isolation, pain, and anger.

Now if your repeat this scenario over and over, the value of your relationship will decrease with each round..

What do you really need to change this pattern?

Remember the real “relationship” lies beneath. It is alive and well and full of love.

Just don’t make this small ‘negotiation’ compromise your relationship.

Managing conflicts through positive techniques can help you learn more ways to resolve conflicts.

Neil Warner

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How Fighting Can Make or Break Your Relationship

Do you currently feel that there is a tragic in the midst of your love relationship?

That you no longer speak to one another?

Do you feel that everything in your relationship does not make sense anymore?

Or there is a lack of peace and harmony in your present relationship?

While peace and harmony in your relationship keeps you motivated and productive, conflict results in endless fights, loneliness, resentment, and mistrust. When you are exposed to intense conflict situations, you suffer emotionally, mentally and physically and elevate your stress level.

You can react on these situations in different ways:

  • You may decide to escape; to do anything to avoid another conflict situation: giving in to other demands without being satisfied to yourself, only to keep the peace; settling for second-best place where you don’t ever have to be bothered with anything related to confrontation, challenge, or friction.
  • Fighting fire against fire results to verbal and physical violence.
  • Or you can avoid future conversations on problematic issues by denying the conflict
  • Or you can avoid future conversations on problematic issues by denying the conflict. It is possible that you can give up and go along with others, forgetting your own interests and finally compromising your soul.
  • You can decide to get your own way no matter what, and do “passive aggressive resistance” without ever getting to discuss your behaviour and its impact on the other. Or you can go the way of skilful negotiations, and learn how to talk about difficult issues with the person you love, and explore different sides of dispute and get an agreement.

But I want you to be aware that it is always best to interpret conflict from a different angle:

What if this situation is not an attack to you but a way for this person, to relate to you, a way of calling out for your support, connection and recognition?

A lot of people always assumed that they would be unhappy in their marriage, that nobody can provide them all the respect; space and love they need, because those ideas were too different or exotic to them. They may have read those ideas in my book, but they found them radically different from their own. An argument is not about whois right or wrong.

Finally they can feel that they can control in a positive way what happens with their relationships

Remember you deserve a happy life with harmonious relationship with your significant other.

But how can you do it?

The answer is simple…

If each argument is an opportunity to get you two closer, if conflicts can be used to build up the relationship, then there is no need to fear any confrontation… just the opposite!

Neil Warner

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