#subtle abuse

I'm not really sure how to drabble this. I'll give you a bullet fic of things he does?

Hugs just tight enough to hurt

"Accidentally" burns them

"Accidentally" pushes them off the bed

"Accidentally" forgets important dates or to feed them

Forgets their allergies

Tells them he's not mad, just disappointed

"Accidentally" puts the wrong movie in for movie night and triggers them

How To Recognize Subtle Abuse

f the last 6 months have taught me anything, it’s that, despite everything I have experienced, everything I’ve read to educate myself about every aspect of abuse, every experience I’ve heard from other women, every counseling session I’ve had, every bit of healing I’ve done since I fled my abusive situation, it’s still possible to fall victim to another abusive situation.

You’re probably rolling…

How To Recognize Subtle Abuse

f the last 6 months have taught me anything, it’s that, despite everything I have experienced, everything I’ve read to educate myself about every aspect of abuse, every experience I’ve heard from other women, every counseling session I’ve had, every bit of healing I’ve done since I fled my abusive situation, it’s still possible to fall victim to another abusive situation.

You’re probably rolling…

Forms of Subtle Invalidation

As is true of most things we experience in life, good and bad, emotional invalidation may be overt, but there forms of subtle invalidation.  It is hard for me, personally, to call subtle invalidation worse or better than obvious invalidation.

The tricky thing about subtle invalidation, is that the person(s) who use it lie at two extreme ends of the spectrum of potential emotional abusers that…