I kinda got the inspiration to create this thread from Eve's Gaslighting thread.
While Gaslighting is an extreme form, a lot of people suffer from Emotional Abuse without even realizing.
I'm tired of seeing people being exploited for being the caring or sensitive type, often via emotional blackmail. This is unacceptable and can have long term effects such as confidence & trust issues, insecurities, depression and self harm.
There's some information here explaining more about it if you suspect that it could be happening to you.
I remember a few years back while visiting a "friends" house, he had a nice (but some would say dizzy) girlfriend who he also had a daughter with, he would often talk to her like honeysuckle, put her down and call her stupid etc, and apart from making me feel uncomfortable I couldn't imagine what his girlfriend felt like hearing this. I waited to get him on his own and I explained how I thought it was unacceptable to speak to someone like this.. obviously it ended up with a heated argument with him using cliche lines such as "Who the fresia do you think you are" and "What does it have to do with you" etc etc. Eventually falling out I suspect made it worse, I only tried to open his eyes, I don't know.
But anyway I see stuff like this happening often, and I'd love to have the confidence to ask the strangers why they're acting like such as ass. What do you think on this matter, would you intervene if such an event was happening?
While Gaslighting is an extreme form, a lot of people suffer from Emotional Abuse without even realizing.
I'm tired of seeing people being exploited for being the caring or sensitive type, often via emotional blackmail. This is unacceptable and can have long term effects such as confidence & trust issues, insecurities, depression and self harm.
There's some information here explaining more about it if you suspect that it could be happening to you.
I remember a few years back while visiting a "friends" house, he had a nice (but some would say dizzy) girlfriend who he also had a daughter with, he would often talk to her like honeysuckle, put her down and call her stupid etc, and apart from making me feel uncomfortable I couldn't imagine what his girlfriend felt like hearing this. I waited to get him on his own and I explained how I thought it was unacceptable to speak to someone like this.. obviously it ended up with a heated argument with him using cliche lines such as "Who the fresia do you think you are" and "What does it have to do with you" etc etc. Eventually falling out I suspect made it worse, I only tried to open his eyes, I don't know.
But anyway I see stuff like this happening often, and I'd love to have the confidence to ask the strangers why they're acting like such as ass. What do you think on this matter, would you intervene if such an event was happening?