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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: Mariner

Kids change the situation completely.


21 posted on 12/28/2016 11:34:31 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

I’d like to add one more question to this author’s list Q11: did you marry your wife because she was hot? Was her hotness upmost in your small brain? Did you ignore her personality and accomplishments, talents and character because her physical attributes were perky? Well, that’s how you end up with a lemon.


22 posted on 12/28/2016 11:34:50 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: rhett october

Ladies, does you husband do any of these things to you?


23 posted on 12/28/2016 11:35:09 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: rhett october
Hillary has long history of beating up Bill behind closed doors: book By Maureen Callahan October 4, 2015 | 6:00am

“Hillary Clinton has a long history of being domestically violent with Bill,” Stone writes. “Hillary has beaten Bill, hit him with hard objects, scratched and clawed him, and made him bleed.”

Andersen also wrote that Hillary would assault Bill in their limo en route to official functions. Whatever was available, she’d throw at Bill: “Yellow legal pads, files, briefing books, car keys . . . ‘They’d be screaming at each other, real blue-in-the-face stuff,’ one of their drivers said, ‘but when the car pulled up to their destination, it was all smiles and waving for the crow

http://nypost.com/2015/10/04/hillary-has-long-history-of-beating-up-bill-behind-closed-doors-book/

24 posted on 12/28/2016 11:36:07 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: rhett october
If you marry a woman from the Northeast, odds are that you'll end up with someone like this. They can be found anywhere, of course, but there is a particularly nasty strain in this part of the country.
25 posted on 12/28/2016 11:36:09 AM PST by Major Matt Mason (Those that can, do, those that can't, work in the Beltway.)
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To: rhett october

My wife puts stuff away, and I wonder if my memory is failing sometimes when it shows up in a different place than were I remember putting it. I asked her if she was doing it to gaslight me. We had a good laff after I explained what that meant.


26 posted on 12/28/2016 11:36:29 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: rhett october

Pretty much my ex wife to a “T”. But these articles are always cautionary, i think you can find some of these in everybody from time to time.


27 posted on 12/28/2016 11:36:40 AM PST by usafa92 (Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States)
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To: 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?

28 posted on 12/28/2016 11:37:01 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: WayneS

Many women can be fine, but...then they hit menopause well into marriage. Night and day.


29 posted on 12/28/2016 11:37:42 AM PST by Tours
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To: rhett october

One of the big reasons why marriage rates are in free-fall.

Guys are sick of putting up with this crap, and women just think it’s all ok to act like that.


30 posted on 12/28/2016 11:37:54 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: rhett october
I can't believe I am about to write this. I had this in my marriage for 18 years. Then she served me with divorce papers blindsiding me. She always made it feel as if it were my fault. All of those points are completely true and there are many men who live with this everyday. It is totally true that we will cling for whatever scraps. It ruins us as men. I have never felt more undesirable more unworthy or more horrible as a person. And this is after two years of counseling.

And you know what the kicker is? Once we are freed we are berated and. Belittled in an unsympathetic and liberal court system. We are made the bad guys AGAIN and have every bit of what we worked for taken away and split. And then we have to pay for the rest of our lives. I have been isolated and physically sickened by what happens. I am very accomplished (though I don't believe it) a doctorate, a masters degree ... despite this I did everything I could and sacrificed myself and my time and my life to jump through hoops that could never lead to acceptance. The writer is correct. Have the courage to leave. It is not worth what they do to you. But it is hard for me to trust again and not be hurt.

if you read this thanks for putting up with the incoherency. This is the most unbelievable thing I have read in a long time -- because it is a perfect description of something that happened for more often than you would think!

31 posted on 12/28/2016 11:38:05 AM PST by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America)
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To: ThomasThomas

It’s tolerated


32 posted on 12/28/2016 11:38:05 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: rhett october

Cause:

Feminism. Feminism is EVIL and was from the very beginning. Women better start waking up to this.


33 posted on 12/28/2016 11:38:20 AM PST by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: Moonman62

A woman yells at me and out the door she goes.

I don’t have time for Moonbat 101.


34 posted on 12/28/2016 11:38:35 AM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: max americana

Accidentally ?


35 posted on 12/28/2016 11:38:47 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Yeah and she was right too.


36 posted on 12/28/2016 11:38:48 AM PST by ncpatriot
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To: rhett october

My ex-wife, to a tee.


37 posted on 12/28/2016 11:39:19 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: max americana
You know some “men” like to be bullied. BDSM stuff is normal to these freaks.

If it's consensual, that's one thing. Otherwise, abuse is abuse, and assault is assault.

38 posted on 12/28/2016 11:39:57 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (The next 4 years may not be a replay of the 80s, but I'm looking forward to it as if it was.)
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To: Tours

Already been through that. No major problems.


39 posted on 12/28/2016 11:40:44 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Organic Panic

Thus the old saying when you see a single pretty girl...”Some guy, somewhere, got sick of her crap”


40 posted on 12/28/2016 11:40:52 AM PST by shotgun
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