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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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To: tiki

When we were kids, my mother and my younger sister were like gasoline and fire, they were always at each other, and if you could say a parent and child hated each other, they came close at times.

When we really wanted to get my sister’s goat, we would say “You are going to be just like mom when you grow up!”

My sister’s eyes would bulge out of her head, and you could see the explosion coming.

She turned out just like my mom. Not a bad thing! (My sister laughs about it now)


161 posted on 12/28/2016 1:30:42 PM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Snickering Hound
Pic reminds me of the Psycho Girlfriend memes.

Image result for psycho girlfriend meme

Image result for psycho girlfriend meme

 

The trouble with Psycho Girlfriends is that they often become Psycho Wives.

 

 

162 posted on 12/28/2016 1:31:18 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Vendome
"...anyone who majors in minor things..."

Never heard it put in that most eloquent way. Hope you have found peace...

163 posted on 12/28/2016 1:32:12 PM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Responsibility2nd

Whoever this girl is, that is her 15 minutes of fame.

She could fly to Shanghai, and when she gets off the plane, some Chinese citizen is sure to point at her and say “Look! It’s the Psycho Girl from the Internet!”


164 posted on 12/28/2016 1:34:04 PM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Albion Wilde

LOL very good


165 posted on 12/28/2016 1:34:53 PM PST by rb22982
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To: Hardastarboard
excellent advice...if you don't like your relationship with a woman, LEAVE.....and stop complaining....

same advice to a woman....there are lots and lots of fish in the sea....don't stick with a loser..

and if you're a man who doesn't like women, then go be a homosexual....women, if you don't like men, go be a lesbian....

but stop the constant bitching about one sex or the other.....

166 posted on 12/28/2016 1:35:52 PM PST by cherry
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To: rlmorel

OMG! My sister too. I call her husband St. Andrew.


167 posted on 12/28/2016 1:36:36 PM PST by tiki
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To: rhett october

“Do you feel like you can’t talk to anyone about your relationship because they just wouldn’t understand?”

Wouldn’t understand? Nah! Wouldn’t believe! ;-)


168 posted on 12/28/2016 1:38:33 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Note to all foreigners: Please.....GET OUT and STAY OUT!)
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To: karatemom
"I hope you haven’t soured on all women although I could understand if you did. Many women have experienced the same and feel the same too. It’s such a colossal waste of time and life is too short. May you find peace and happiness."

Hubby's first wife was like one of these women. How he got out of that mess, I'll never know. But I made up my mind when we were dating that it would be a lot easier to appreciate him than it would be to fight with him. We only had 30 years, and he's been gone 15 years, but those 30 were as happy as anyone could ever hope for. Thank God for him and what he was willing to invest into the relationship, and that I had the wits to try to outdo him in the "giving" department.

169 posted on 12/28/2016 1:39:55 PM PST by redhead (WEAPONIZED PRAYE R WORKS! MSM is DOA)
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To: Verbosus
I didn’t realize I was that level of scum until she told me (repeatedly.)

LOL, I've been known to say that I never worry about my past mistakes, because my wife is able to remember each and every one of them.

170 posted on 12/28/2016 1:40:46 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: PLMerite
Women marry men expecting them to change.

Men marry women hoping they won’t.

 

Follow up.

Women marry men expecting them to change. BUT THEY DON'T.

Men marry women hoping they won’t. BUT THEY DO.

 

171 posted on 12/28/2016 1:42:02 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: tiki

I’m glad your father triumphed! I think my father did too in a way - but he was often unhappy. A wonderful man who I miss every day of my life.


172 posted on 12/28/2016 1:42:52 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Night Hides Not

And it took them each a LONG time to get tired of her - no matter how crazy she may be.

173 posted on 12/28/2016 1:44:16 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: WayneS

My big sister is just like this.
She had a major meltdown at an airport once over mis-packed makeup. Security was circling the area! My BIL just hangs his head and takes it. he has had GF’s for years, can’t blame him.
They will never get a divorce as they like to look like the Golden Couple. If you have never witnessed a meltdown, you would think they are.


174 posted on 12/28/2016 1:45:02 PM PST by ronniesgal (hey move on over, snowflakes. the adults are in charge again!!!!!)
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To: rlmorel
LOL

Many years ago, she was playing the role of backseat driver. When I had had it "up to there", I called her by her mother's name. The reaction was predictable,

,

but I made my point. lol

175 posted on 12/28/2016 1:45:44 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Vendome

In three weeks and two days, we get to wipe our country of everything Obama and all reminders of his existence.

“You’re fired, Barack Hussein!”


176 posted on 12/28/2016 1:46:06 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: tiki

Yes, I agree. Major hormone changes can be very difficult to deal with.


177 posted on 12/28/2016 1:46:09 PM PST by Tours
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To: rlmorel

And for all we know, she could be a very sweet girl.

Crazy eyes notwithstanding.


178 posted on 12/28/2016 1:46:49 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Pollster1

Impossible to argue with your (pictorial) logic. She looks great today, no denying it.


179 posted on 12/28/2016 1:48:20 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Night Hides Not

LOL...when my wife pushes the ‘wrong button’, I refer to her by her grandmother’s first name (it can be found under her picture in most quality dictionaries next to ‘evil’ or ‘demon’). The men married to my wife’s two sisters do the same thing...go figure.


180 posted on 12/28/2016 1:49:19 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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