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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: rhett october

bkmk


241 posted on 12/29/2016 11:02:45 AM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: Mr. Douglas

Ain’t God great?


242 posted on 12/29/2016 11:28:07 AM PST by Flaming Conservative
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To: rhett october

“Happy wife = happy life”


243 posted on 12/29/2016 12:51:51 PM PST by HandyDandy (Don't make up stuff. It wastes time.)
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To: rhett october

Oh Well,

Happy new year!


244 posted on 01/02/2017 5:22:23 AM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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