Friday, February 27, 2015

Be Independent And Emancipate Yourself



There is a lot more to domestic violence that people often overlook. I have realised that many times when one talks about domestic violence, people  have got this picture of a battered woman who would have been heavily assaulted yet domestic violence does not only entail physical abuse.  Emotional abuse is another form of domestic abuse. Just because you’re not battered and bruised doesn’t mean you’re not being abused. Emotional abuse is often overlooked, funny enough even by the person who is being abused largely because they won’t be aware that it is abuse that is being exerted on them.

We then now have to help each other about the signs of emotional abuse. Emotional abuse includes verbal abuse such as yelling, name-calling, blaming, and shaming. Isolation, intimidation, and controlling behaviour also fall under emotional abuse. Additionally, abusers who use emotional or psychological abuse often throw in threats of physical violence or other repercussions if you don’t do what they want. Many at times if one is emotionally abused there is so much fear in them and now l am wondering...why should you be afraid of someone who is intimate to you and more so someone you love?

Let me bring into light to you that if your partner wants to behave like a God to you, intimidates you, makes you feel inferior, each time you see him you shiver then that enough evidence that he is abusing you. 

I am not saying you should distance yourself from that kind of a person but you certainly have to do something, maybe you are dependent and that is why he is treating you the way he is treating you...then you have to do something.

Dont Be Dependent, By So Doing You Avail Yourself To Emotional Abuse...

3 comments:

  1. yah that is very true. many people especially ladies are abused because the depend on other people. being independent is great way of avoiding abuse

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  2. it is unfortunate that some ladies are still adhering to the societal norms and values that a woman has to take care of children at home and the man should go to work...so sad because that man will not take care of all the woman's needs, he will only take care of all the woman's needs. For women, that man who does not allow you to go to work will keep on reminding you that you are not working, that is emotional abuse. You need to come out from that, no one will take you out of that abuse.

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