| There is a certain numbness that goes hand in hand | | | | emotional assault serves to wrap your wounded-ness |
| with being in an emotionally abusive relationship. And | | | | in protective numbness to recover, or at least stay |
| when it's in your body, you know the death of your | | | | out of the line of fire. |
| being... the stifling of your personality... the annihilation | | | | 2) Your intra-psychic and interpersonal uniqueness |
| of your soul. | | | | disappears and you blend in as though you don't exist |
| You know the experience oh so well, and you may | | | | at all. That which is uniquely you is put in check and |
| even know how much you hate experiencing | | | | left there indefinitely. You have no interest in sharing |
| yourself in this way. | | | | who and what you are. Your concerns are only to |
| What You Don't Know About Your Abusive | | | | get through the nourish-less encounter with your |
| Relationship | | | | abusive partner. |
| What's confusing for most people in emotionally | | | | 3) Your connection to the universal lifeline vanishes |
| abusive relationships is how they love this person, | | | | and you experience your penetrating isolation. You |
| how this person purports to love them... and how it is | | | | feel alone in yourself. You are detached from those |
| that this "love" leaves them so dead in their own skin. | | | | around you, and severed from your inner center and |
| Here are some insights to help you sort out the | | | | alignment with the whole. |
| experience of numbness characteristic of living in an | | | | If you know this experience in any way, shape or |
| emotionally abusive relationship. | | | | form, you owe it to yourself to learn more about |
| 1) Your essence shuts down, feels lifeless... almost | | | | emotionally abusive relationships. Doing so will help |
| dead. Your sense of presence in your environment is | | | | you recognize how you've engaged in the status |
| wiped out and overshadowed by your mere holding | | | | quo, how you can ultimately break the cycle of |
| your own. It's as though what's left of you after an | | | | abuse and how to heal from emotional abuse. |