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Trust no auntie5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() What struck me about this quote is the fact that emotional abusers are very passive, very subtle, very quiet. So the impact is gradual, not fist-to-the-eye immediate. Their covert abuse is administered in small, cunning ways over time. And appear nothing but supportive to those around you. They may, in fact, speak very kind words to you. ![]() What I had discovered in those precise few moments, was the exact description for the subtle abuse I was, and still am, facing from my estranged parents. The words settled like lead inside of my head. ![]() Emotional abuse? This concept was something completely new to me. It was after reading the above passage in a book I recently completed by Augusten Burroughs that I stopped dead in my tracks. Emotional violence is another kind of abuse … it’s not about words because an emotionally abusive person doesn’t always resort to using the verbal club, but rather the verbal untraceable poison. ![]()
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