Verbal Abuse: What is it? How Is It Impacting You?
‘'Honey! I love you, but you don't know anything about people.'' 'You're not worth it.'' ‘'I am saying everything for your good.'' Do you have any idea about the depth of all these sentences? Many of you may consider these a kind of help, a gesture of love, or maybe good advice. But is it really some sort of help or a kind of verbal abuse? Verbal abuse is very common in everyday relationships. Most of the time verbal abuse can be overlooked because we don't recognize it. Many of us consider yelling, belittling behavior, put-downs, and name-calling as self -abuse. Verbal assaults consider it a normal way of communication. It is because the attacking person uses the overt forms of abuse. Of course, they make threats and also remain…