How to Tell if Your Are in an Emotionally Abusive Relationship

There are several kinds of abusive relationships. Relationships can be sexually abusive and physically abusive, but one of the most common kinds of abusive relationships is an emotionally abusive relationship.

About Emotionally Abusive Relationships

Humans react through emotion, and as such emotions play a major part in our daily life. For example, if you are the kind of person who is very emotionally sensitive, than you can overreact to many different aspects of a relationship. This can easily become an emotionally abusive relationship.

Many emotionally abusive relationships are motivated by jealousy. People who are jealous by nature often also become possessive. For example, if a man sees his girlfriend taking to another man who really is just a friend, the man might be overcome with the emotion of jealousy, and thus accuse his girlfriend of flirting with the man that she was talking to.

Emotionally abusive relationships that deal with jealousy become emotionally abusive relationships because not only does that jealousy lead to possessiveness, but it also leads to mistrust. Trust is one of the most important aspects of a relationship.

The other person in the relationship knows that they are not cheating, but the other person in the relationship always blames that person for doing just that. Without accepting any sort of explanations from that person, the person who is being blamed ends up a victim of an emotionally abusive relationship.

Emotionally abusive relationships can also involve one partner constantly berating the other person, whether it be according to their achievements, or their appearance. The other partner, through this berating, never lives up to the standards of their partner, and as a result often retaliates by getting into arguments with their partner, which could turn into a physically abusive relationship.

It is important to note that emotionally abusive relationships are no less serious than physically abusive relationships, because word can often have just as much power as the force of a fist. Also, emotional abuse can cause a person immense stress, which can manifest itself in physical ways.

If you are a person that is the victim of an emotionally abusive relationship, seek counseling for both you and your partner. If your partner refuses, tell your partner that unless he or she immediately stops the abuse, you will leave him or her. An emotionally abusive relationship should be fixed, not tolerated, because to be the victim of one is something that no one deserves.