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When you are bipolar does that make you abusive?
It could. But not every Bipolar person is abusive. It should however, never be an excuse for abuse. A person who is abusive Bipolar or not, is wrong in what they are doing. Seek help if you or someone you know is in an abusive relationship/situation.
When do you know when to break off an abusive relationship?
I would say as quickly as possible before it gets out of hand!
What are the various classifications of abuse?
Verbal Abuse, Physical Abuse, and Emotional Abuse. Verbal Abuse: Using words to abuse someone. It's a form of profanity that can occur with or without expletives. Also includes abusive words in written form. Physical Abuse: abuse involving contact that is meant to cause intimidation, fear, and pain/injury to the victim. Emotional/Psychological Abuse: abuse characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another to behavior that is psychologically harmful. Such abuse is often associated with situations of power imbalance, such as abusive relationships, bullying, child abuse, and in the workplace. But do know there is no set definitions for each of these. They tend to change form all of the time.
How can you trust your husband not to be controlling and verbally abusive?
http://www.coping.org/relations/boundar/intro.htm The above URL might be helpful in determining healthy boundaries in a relationship so that you can recognise such boundaries, set them and maintain them should you be in what is an abusive or controlling relationship. One does not passively *trust* that a partner will not be "controlling" or "verbally abusive" whatever promises may be made and however contrite the emotionally abusive partner may be. Rather, it is our responsibility to ensure we recognise what does and does not promote our emotional wellbeing and that we take steps to set and maintain limits to ensure our own emotional safety. It is important to know ourselves and our limits and to clearly, clamly and assertively convey those limits to others and ask that they be respected. Obviously, if a partner cannot or will not recognise our limits we must take steps to protect ourselves. If we are committed to the relationship in question, then we may try avenues such as counselling to alter the destructive dyamics within a relationship. However, if a partner is unwilling to confront the problems and to make lasting changes via intervention, then we must put an end to the relationship with an abusive partner for the sake of self-preservation.
Is an abusive relationship worth saving?
No relationship that is abusive is worth saving for any reason. Sometimes it is safer to stay within them until you know you can leave safely but once a realtionship turns from what you thought was love to abuse-there is no turning back. There are many forms of abusive but, no matter what type whether it be physical, emotional, financial, etc. less than 1 % of abusers ever change and it will happen again. You will have to ask yourself if that is how you want to live or whether you think you deserve better. You do deserve to have the best possible life that you can and surround yourslef with loving, positive, happy and fun people.
Why was he trying not to be abusive but he was?
Men who are abusive generally have learned this from the environment in which they grew up. Some men have a short fuse and blast off with either verbally abusive words or they become physically abusive with their partner. Some men know deep inside it is wrong, but don't know how to get help and most men refuse to seek psychological counseling because it makes them feel weak and not masculine. If he refuses to get help then you have the power to get out of the abusive relationship.
How do you get out of a verbally abusive relationship when the abuser is a cop?
Well if you're afraid no one will believe you get a little camera hide it somewhere and if he starts beating you up you will have proof. Then take it to the cops and he will go to jail and you move somewhere far away and start a new life. Verbal abuse can be as harmful as physical abuse and should not be tolerated by anyone, especially someone who represents law enforcement. But you know that already. The question is, would you stay with him if he weren't abusive? If you love him and want the relationship to get better, perhaps you could think about couples counseling.
How can you let a non-abusive parent know that she is actually making a mistake for not letting her husband's verbal and emotional abuse bother her and for allowing the abuse to continue?
Both parents are in a codependent relationship. One is the controller and the other is the helpless victim. Both are getting emotional needs met in the relationship. Codepenent relationships have their roots in pain avoidance. The only way to change this is for one or both parents to get into counseling or a support group. This usually doesn't happen until the pain gets too great for one of them and they desire to get to the root of the pain, rather than mask it with the codependency. Denial is an extremely powerful emotion. You can't fix other people; that is codependency, also.
What are the possible reasons a woman would seek out a relationship where she is being controlled and why would she view that as love?
Usually women do this because it is all they know. Many women will pick partners that are abusive because they've had abusive fathers, etc.
How do you help a loved one who is in an abusive relationship and in denial?
try being in there shoes and let them know that your there for them and tell them that its hard to confess but you feel better and safer
What does it mean when a man says he doesn't want an emotional relationship?
hes a man they never know what they mean
In any relationship don't both parties commit little acts or sometimes speak words that one or both consider abusive?
Yes, but not intentionally. Some of us really don't know that we already hurt a certain person because of verbal abuse. This is very common. The safest thing we should do is to apologize every time we commit that mistake. True abuse, whether emotional, physical or both, is not composed of "little acts." It is an ongoing pattern of severe maltreatment that is emotionally and/or physically damaging to the victim.
