| Verbal abuse in marriage makes for a toxic home. | | | | you are the messages you carry with you that echo |
| You feel it in the air, smell it in your living space, see | | | | in the silent space between your intentional, |
| its brutal impact on yourself as well as on little ones | | | | conscious thoughts. |
| dependent upon you. | | | | 3) Social paralysis evolving out of your tendency to |
| You know this from the core of your being, yet | | | | project the emotional verbal abuse onto others. |
| when victimized by verbal abuse in marriage, there is | | | | When in the company of friends, family and |
| a tendency to sweep the big elephant under the | | | | co-workers, you may find yourself reading the |
| carpet, and hope and pray you won't trip over him. | | | | messages harbored within into your interaction with |
| Here are three deadly mistakes one can make by | | | | others. |
| hiding from verbal abuse in your marriage. | | | | If you live in a marriage in which you routinely |
| 1) It doesn't go away just because you pretend it's | | | | experience verbal abuse, recognize the death |
| not happening. To the contrary, it becomes the | | | | sentence you give yourself when you sweep this |
| marital habit shared by you and your partner. | | | | ugly elephant under the carpet or try to shove it in a |
| Moreover, it even expands both externally and | | | | closet. The sooner you see the emotional verbal |
| internally. | | | | abuse for what it is, the better you will cope and |
| 2) The inner crime of defining yourself in terms of | | | | minimize the effects of being battered verbally by |
| your spouse's verbal abuse. This is what I mean by | | | | your spouse. |
| expanding internally. The verbal assaults scorned at | | | | |