According to the American Psychological Association, parental alienation is “a child’s experience of being manipulated by one parent to turn against the other (targeted) parent
“Coercive control” is a common household term in the UK which most of us Americans have never heard of. It’s beginning to weave its way
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As humans, we want to believe what others say, especially those we love. It is hard to fathom that someone we care for would not
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In my last post, I shared some of what writer and life coach Natalie Hoffman had to say about warning signs of emotional abuse in
I just finished listening to a podcast from this weekend’s Emotional Abuse Recovery and Resilience Summit put together by Stacy Brookman, a Resilience and Life
After nearly eighteen years of a fairly stable relationship, I learned that my husband had begun an affair with a girl thirty years his junior.
Commentary on Dina McMillan and How To Prevent Abuse & Domestic Violence Being the parent of a teen daughter, and having just finished a domestic
Coming to grips with the fact that you’re in a toxic relationship with a high-conflict partner is hard enough, but deciding what to do about