Remember that the individual will NOT TELL YOU that they’ve been in a cult like environment. It’s up to YOU to figure it out. It’s up to you to listen, Listen, LISTEN very, Very, VERY CAREFULLY as you will be “unwinding” decades of delusional fear based cultural programming. Tell me about church when you were […]
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Enablers don’t care about the damage, they ONLY care about themselves
{{guest post}} I get that people want to claim to be advocates or have a cause based mission, perhaps some want to simply take out their unresolved anger on anyone that they can find. But the real problem with enablers is that they really don’t care about the other individual, all they really care about […]
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Evade Responsibility or Take Responsibility
You’ve left. The abuse. It’s gone. It’s over. You’ve moved on. Now what. The abuse is still in your head. The lies are still in your soul. The hurt is still in your heart. Is proper therapy and counselling replaced with enabling and hoarding the pain? Do you turn to Twitter #hashtags to reinforce your […]
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A Judicial Guide to Child Safety in Custody Cases
abusive behavior as “a pattern of assaultive and coercive behaviors that operate at a variety of levels – physical, psychological, emotional, financial or sexual – that one parent uses against the other parent. 14 The pattern of behaviors is neither impulsive nor ‘out of control,’ but is purposeful and instrumental in order to gain compliance […]
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Myths about Domestic Violence
Domestic violence is only something which can be done by someone with a penis. No one, having a vagina, can ever, has ever, will ever, committed any type of family violence or domestic violence to any level at any degree ever in the history of ever. Continuing the cycle of domestic violence can only happen […]
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The Permission to change
Rick Owen, you don’t need my permission to change. But please remember that I can’t change the truth so that it lines up to your perception. Ms. Conaway, you don’t have to be miserable and obsessed with paranoia all your life. But please remember that I can not make the truth line up with any […]
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Evil People
New International Version A wicked person listens to deceitful lips; a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue. New Living Translation Wrongdoers eagerly listen to gossip; liars pay close attention to slander. English Standard Version An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue. Berean Study Bible A wicked […]
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Chronic PTSD will never have a tattoo on their forehead announcing itself
Unlike Autism, or Down Syndrome, or any number of mental illnesses which have some level of a physical manifestation, someone who has endured multiple chronic traumatic events probably is NOT going to be obvious. Hey, has this person lived in a right wing, misogynistic, controlling, socially manipulative, isolating, and abusive environment for 35 years? Yeah, […]
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godly_marriage_101
Truth! A post shared by Godly Marriage 101 (@godly_marriage_101) on Aug 25, 2018 at 8:13am PDT
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Is this normal?
As prepping things for court, gathering information for a restraining order, and even in going to counseling…. I asked someone if this was normal: Do most people wish and pray that their first ex husband should be dead?