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10 Signs Your Wife is an Emotional Bully
Marriage Radio ^ | 12-28-2016 | Dr Tara J. Palmatier, PsyD

Posted on 12/28/2016 11:24:58 AM PST by rhett october

Does your wife yell, scream, and swear at you? Do you feel like you can’t talk to anyone about your relationship because they just wouldn’t understand? Is your relationship making you feel like you’re slowly going crazy?

If so, you’re probably involved with a woman who is an emotionally abusive bully. Most men don’t want to admit that they’re in an abusive relationship. They describe the relationship and their wife using other terms like crazy, emotional, controlling, bossy, domineering, constant conflict, or volatile. If you use words like this to describe your relationship, odds are you’re being emotionally abused.

Do you recognize any of the following behaviors?

1) Bullying. If she doesn’t get her way, there’s hell to pay. She wants to control you and resorts to emotional intimidation to do it. She uses verbal assaults and threats in order to get you to do what she wants. It makes her feel powerful to make you feel bad. People with a Narcissistic personality are often bullies.

Result: You lose your self-respect and feel outnumbered, sad, and alone. You develop a case of Stockholm Syndrome, in which you identify with the aggressor and actually defend her behavior to others.

2) Unreasonable expectations. No matter how hard you try and how much you give, it’s never enough. She expects you to drop whatever you’re doing and attend to her needs...

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: bullywife; emotionalabuse; emotionalbully; husbandabuse; marriage
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If this wasn't written by a WOMAN with a Ph.D., it would probably be called politically incorrect and slammed by feminists. Heck, it still might be, but I know a man in this situation who has confided a little bit with me but doesn't do anything about it because society almost always seems to make the husband/man the bad guy and views women as incapable of any time of "abuse," or wrong. He forwarded this to me and I thought it might be helpful if any other man is going through this. She even says that men who are in abusive marriages in which the perpetrator is a woman do not have the same support resources as their female counterparts. For what it's worth...
1 posted on 12/28/2016 11:24:58 AM PST by rhett october
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To: rhett october
Does your wife yell, scream, and swear at you?

No.

2 posted on 12/28/2016 11:26:12 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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3 posted on 12/28/2016 11:27:38 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: rhett october

Sadly, my mother.


4 posted on 12/28/2016 11:28:19 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: rhett october

It reads exactly like the type of stuff Dr. Laura Schlesinger used to say which got her chased right off of terrestrial radio.


5 posted on 12/28/2016 11:28:22 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: rhett october

I don’t treat anyone this way, and I will not be treated this way by anyone.


6 posted on 12/28/2016 11:28:49 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: BenLurkin

Yep. She’s the poster child for an abusive spouse.


7 posted on 12/28/2016 11:29:00 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: rhett october

8 posted on 12/28/2016 11:31:08 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: miss marmelstein

I know how you feel


9 posted on 12/28/2016 11:31:15 AM PST by Mr. K ( Trump kicked her ass 2-to-1 if you remove all the voter fraud.)
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To: rigelkentaurus

Easy to say when you haven’t been there.


10 posted on 12/28/2016 11:31:21 AM PST by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: rhett october

Does your wife approve of you reading this?


11 posted on 12/28/2016 11:31:29 AM PST by ThomasThomas (Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.)
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To: rhett october
Does your wife yell, scream, and swear at you?

Only on the good days...

12 posted on 12/28/2016 11:31:57 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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This reminds me of an old (Will Rogers) quote. How do you fight with a woman?

With your hat. You put it on and you leave. Works for me.

13 posted on 12/28/2016 11:32:09 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Freedom Trumps Fascism)
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Ash tray thrower??


14 posted on 12/28/2016 11:32:17 AM PST by VRWC For Truth (FU Schmuckie Shoomer)
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To: rhett october

Ho Lee Chit.

I was with this chick for a long time...

No one understood it and I will never allow it again.

as to: 9) Withholding affection and sex, I got past that in my early 20’s.

“Oh, you want to use sex as a weapon? No problem. I never had a problem finding women before you and none were ever coated in gold anyway.

Have fun....by yourself”


15 posted on 12/28/2016 11:32:19 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: BenLurkin

Watching and listening to Hillary Clinton actually made me feel a little sorry for Bill.


16 posted on 12/28/2016 11:32:26 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: rhett october

A man does not need a lot of support to pack his shit and move.


17 posted on 12/28/2016 11:32:53 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: rockrr

LOL


18 posted on 12/28/2016 11:32:57 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: rhett october

Having a really hot girlfriend will allow one to tolerate that for a while. I had one about 5 years back. Smoking hot. All sweet and lovey dovey... At first... then the claws started sticking in one by one. It was like walking on egg shells. A terrible feeling of doom just to go on a date. BUT. I threw her to the curb. Within days she found the next chump.

Reminds me of a conversation I had with some female friends of mine one day. They were amazed that men were dumping Cheryl Crow. “She’s rich, She’s beautiful, She’s a great musician, How could any man break up with her.”

To which I stated. “Maybe she’s a bitch.”

It never occurred to them.


19 posted on 12/28/2016 11:33:28 AM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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You know some “men” like to be bullied. BDSM stuff is normal to these freaks. Reminds me of the swingers party I accidentally went to back in college..


20 posted on 12/28/2016 11:34:03 AM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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