I Am a Victim of Emotional Abuse Stories of Experiences

It has only been a few months since my freedom began, but it does not feel like freedom as of yet. I am getting a divorce, from my long time abuser, after nine years!
Everything started out great, I had met the man of my dreams, we...

I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian home. My whole life, my parents have tried to control all my decisions. From the beginning, they created a strong psychological hold over me. I've been trying so hard to break free from it, but it...

I became weak during that days.. I was not able to handle it... and was not able to fight....

Listen to the song in my heart
A melody I start but can't complete

Listen to the sound from deep within
It's only beginning to find release

Oh the time has come for my dreams to be heard
They will not be pushed aside and turned
Into...

I am an emotional abused victim . Till one day I decided that enough is enough! I let a man who I loved and cherished with all my heart . I let him erode my sense of self esteem and he literally had a hold of my mind , to where my self...

We met, we married, we had a family, we divorced, we got back together, abuse got worse,  he left, he still hasn't stopped trying to hurt me. It's almost like a story you  read or watch on TV.   He left me last November, after he...

I am two and sometimes I wish I was only one. I am everyone. I am no one. I choose to be a patriot of love, compassion, and understanding. I am not defined by my past because I can choose my future. Sometimes the path is clouded...

Everytime you see someone going through something, it's not always about a Woman/Man...There is so much more thats held in someone's heart. I love to inspire & encourage whenever I can.......... There is way more good people in rhe...

Has anyone else struggled with your own sanity and the idea of being 'crazy' ?

I know what happened to me was emotional abuse- and it drives me crazy that HE wont admit it - but then again of course he wont as why would he.

i know...

I am the Rattler of Chains. I am the Ice Queen Ablaze. I see all that is, all that was, and all the can be. I am everyone and no one. I sit at the bottom of a great chasm, all made of glass. I am inside myself, watching the outside...

Yet, they must care to want to understand. But that's the thing, they don't care. And if they do, it's so very slight, that after too many inconveniences, they cease to understand because they cease to care.Everyone in the world will...

We met three years ago and quickly fell in love...in our fifties and full of energy with no ties, I felt so special as he carefully mapped out my new future. No detail was left out and I positively glowed with happiness that my knight...

I am 20, and my boyfriend is 34. We got together almost 5 years ago, and my memory of how it used to be is almost gone, for good. What I'm currently left with, is the last 2 years since we started living in together, which was been...

I have very low self-esteem from family troubles, and even though they are somewhat resolved, they have permanently affected my psyche. I've always been involved in difficult romantic relationships, and had a bad reputation growing up...

I lived with my mom for fourteen years on and off. I loved her then and I still love her but I realized about four years ago through the help of my father and some incriminating evidence that I was being abused. My mother never laid a...

Why does he have to treat me like a child? I mean i am a grown woman.
The emotional abuse is taking its toll on me. I dont know if it will ever end or go away.
Some days everything is hunky dory, then one little thing will set him...

I had suffered anxieties since i was young and in my mid twenties found myself in an emotionally abusive relationship. It got bad. My mental health problems increased and it was one of the most horrible times in my life.

Understanding...

i am being told by my mom who i can have in my house i pay the house payments and all the bills she is moving in a week and i loss my dad about 5 months ago and after i put my life on hold to move in here and take care of my dad for...

My dad doesnt want my siblings or i. He left my mom for a woman who was 14 years older than him a couple years ago. Ever since than he has been trying to gain custody to make my mom miserable and to make my older brother, my younger...

I was supposed to have been born 40 years old and my mother's caretaker. Growing up with her as my parent was a nightmare. It was never safe to make mistakes of any kind. There were "NO EXCUSES!" If I dared complain about my treatment...