| Lack of emotional safety is the number one indicator | | | | 3) Not appreciating your experience and or your |
| of a potentially dangerous relationship. It may seem | | | | feelings. |
| subtle, yet it is ever so significant with respect to | | | | If your inner world is not noticed, nor factored into |
| your well-being. | | | | decisions involving both of you, beware of this |
| When you have emotional safety, it's palatable. You | | | | non-empathic partner. |
| can feel it in every fiber of your being. When it's | | | | 4) Not being willing to have mutual involvement in |
| missing, you may feel its loss. Or, you may simply | | | | your interests. |
| know of it not being there by the presence of these | | | | Mutual involvement doesn't mean equal time doing |
| five glaring signs. | | | | your interests verses theirs. Rather, it is reciprocal |
| 1) Not honoring your privacy. | | | | interest in that which interests you. |
| If something is in a drawer, it's in a drawer out from | | | | 5) Not honoring you for who and what you are. |
| public display. Someone having no business in that | | | | Taking you in from where you are versus |
| drawer may be drawn to explore its contents. | | | | intentionally seeking to alter who and what you are |
| Beware of the signs of an emotionally abusive | | | | to suit one's own preferences is the most glaring of |
| relationship. | | | | these signs. |
| 2) Not respecting your boundaries. | | | | While each one of these undermines emotional |
| If you say "no," will it be the end of discussion or | | | | safety, in combination they make it impossible. If you |
| beginning of a negotiation? When "no" means maybe, | | | | encounter this cluster of signs, you are probably |
| and becomes a challenge to convert into a "yes," | | | | looking at an emotionally abusive relationship. |
| beware of emotional abuse! | | | | |