Relationships & Emotional Abuse: Understanding Harmful Dynamics
These articles bring clarity to patterns of coercive control, emotional manipulation, and trauma bonding. They help you recognise the difference between love and control, understand why leaving can feel confusing, and begin to rebuild self-trust after emotional abuse.
Have you ever left a conversation wondering if you misunderstood or if your reality was quietly rewritten? This post explores the difference between gaslighting and genuine miscommunication, and why the distinction matters for your safety and self-trust.
When thoughts about someone take over your mind, it can feel like love, but it may be limerence. This article explores the nervous-system roots of obsessive longing and how to find steadier ground.
Emotional abuse is often subtle, slow, and easy to minimise, especially when you still care about the person hurting you. If you’ve been doubting your memory, questioning your reactions, or wondering whether something feels “off,” this guide helps you recognise the signs, understand the impact on your nervous system, and begin trusting yourself again.
When a partner pulls away, it often comes from overwhelm, not lack of love. This guide helps you understand the pursue–withdraw cycle and learn how to give space, reconnect gently, and rebuild emotional safety.
Emotional and psychological abuse don’t leave bruises, but they change your body, mind, and sense of self. Learn why it’s so hard to name, how it rewires your nervous system, and what healing can look like.
Trauma bonds make it feel impossible to leave someone who hurts you. This article explains the cycle, the nervous-system wiring behind the attachment, and gentle steps toward breaking free.
Caring for an aging parent with strong narcissistic traits can bring intense guilt, exhaustion, and impossible choices. This article explores why narcissistic dynamics often intensify with age and how adult children are left caught between duty and self-preservation.
When your abusive ex enters a new relationship, it can stir up fear, guilt, and moral questions. This article explores how to protect others without risking your own safety.
Have you ever felt drained by a relationship where one person’s insecurity always takes centre stage?
Vulnerable narcissism doesn’t look like boasting or grandiosity; it often shows up as hypersensitivity, emotional fragility, and a constant need for reassurance. This post explores the emotional push–pull of these dynamics, and why they can leave you feeling confused, exhausted, and doubting yourself.
You watched the bodycam footage and something stirred in you. Maybe you recognised the way Gabby apologised, taking all the blame. This article explores the warning signs of coercive control that often remain invisible, even when distress is plain to see, and what understanding these patterns can offer when you're seeking clarity or safety.
Why survivors stay isn’t about weakness; it’s about survival. Learn how trauma, coercive control, attachment, and practical barriers make leaving abuse profoundly complex, and what actually helps.
Spiritual abuse occurs when faith is used to control, shame, or trap someone in a relationship. This post explores the signs of spiritual abuse, how belief systems can be weaponised, and how healing can begin when faith has been used as a tool of harm.
Stalking often disguises itself as romance. This article explores how boundary violations erode safety, the warning signs of stalking, and what support and protection can look like.
Emotional abuse rarely starts with cruelty. It begins with care, intensity, and “I’m only doing this because I love you.” This post explores how love slowly becomes control, why leaving is so hard, and how to begin rebuilding your sense of self.
Legal abuse is a lesser-known but powerful tactic often used in domestic abuse situations. This happens when one partner exploits the legal system to exert control and inflict pain, even after the relationship has ended.
After a breakup, abusers often use hidden tactics to maintain control and harm their ex-partner, including manipulating the legal system, children, and shared responsibilities.
Many people blame themselves for “mutual abuse,” but reactive responses aren’t the same as being abusive. Learn how trauma, power dynamics, and the nervous system shape your reactions and why your responses were survival, not cruelty.
Conflict is part of every relationship. But when disagreements leave you smaller, anxious, or doubting your own reality, something deeper may be happening. Here’s how to recognise the shift from conflict to abuse.
Coercive control doesn’t begin with bruises; it begins with self-doubt. This trauma-informed guide helps you recognise the signs, understand why it’s so hard to leave, and begin reclaiming your sense of self.
Being in a toxic relationship can leave you feeling drained, isolated, and unseen. Emotional abuse and manipulation quietly breed loneliness that’s hard to name and even harder to escape.
If you’ve ever wondered why people you trust defend or enable someone who’s hurt you, this article explores the role of “flying monkeys” in narcissistic abuse and how their involvement can leave you feeling confused, isolated, and doubting yourself.
Coercive control doesn’t always look like violence.
It shows up as shrinking, self-doubt, isolation, and fear. This piece explores how subtle patterns erode your freedom and how your body often recognises what’s happening long before your mind can name it.
Financial and emotional abuse often intertwine, leaving survivors feeling isolated, uncertain, and trapped. This blog helps you recognise the signs of financial abuse, understand its impact, and explore practical steps toward reclaiming your independence.
Is your relationship adding stress to your life? Discover signs that your partnership might be affecting your well-being and learn how to navigate emotional challenges.
Healing from emotional abuse means learning to trust your perceptions again.
With trauma-informed support, you can rebuild boundaries, confidence, and a sense of safety in relationships.
You deserve relationships grounded in respect and emotional safety and that healing begins with you