MaidMirawyn
New Member
Emotional abuse is just as bad as physical abuse; it can even be worse than physical abuse. (We aren't talking the kind of physical abuse that can maim or kill.)Emotional abuse is an interesting subject. It's not like physical abuse or sexual abuse, where the provocation primarily lies with the aggressor, but in this case, many times, with the victim.
First, most emotional abuse is only potent if they victim lets it be. In large amounts or from people we love, it can be harder to defray. And if someone's really bad, removal might even be necessary.
I lived with physical abuse for the first eighteen years of my life; I lived with emotional abuse for longer. I would have suffered twice the physical abuse I took if it meant I could escape the emotional abuse. And not a bit of it was my fault, or my sister's, or my brother's. It was my father's.
But ArchAngel is right: you can't let yourself be taken over by the victim mindset.