Traumatic bonding is an unhealthy emotional attachment that happens in an abusive relationship between the abuser and the victim when phases of emotional abuse are followed by phases of affection and niceness continuously. This unhealthy attachment can be so strong that the victim may find it impossible to leave the relationship. To understand well why …
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For most people when the word psychopath is mentioned, what comes in their mind is a criminal, a serial killer, or a very violent person. Of course it’s true that most psychopaths have those evil qualities but since they don’t exhibit those qualities every time, it would be wrong to understand a psychopath only as …
The reason why some people fall victim of narcissists’ hoovering and get back into a toxic relationship is because they don’t manage to recover completely and forgot the narcissist after going no contact. In this article I will tell you how to forget a narcissist after you have decided to go no contact. But before …
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I guess you already know that high self-confidence and feeling good about yourself goes hand in hand. If you managed to be confident then you would feel good about yourself naturally. One the other hand when you have low self-esteem, you will always be self-critical therefore there is no way you will truly feel good …
Abusive narcissists may look stronger and powerful on the surface but inside they are usually weaker than the victim. An abusive narcissist is usually someone whom life has treated badly but instead of directing the life disappointments, anger and all the bad emotions associated with life problems towards seeking solutions they decide to direct this …
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One of the common questions I get when I do relationship coaching is; how to keep a narcissist interested in you? Because narcissists usually devalue and discard their relationship partner sometimes for not obvious reasons, some people get confused by this behaviour and wonder what they can do to prevent the narcissist from devaluing or …
Because life problems and difficulties are inevitable, we need emotional strength in order to stand strong in the face of adversity. Emotionally strong people do face harsh life problems like anybody else but the type of problem that would break a normal person may seem much smaller or non-existent to an emotionally strong person. When …
Narcissistic emotional abuse can have really bad psychological impacts on the person being abusive especially if he was subjected to the abuse for long. Sometimes the psychological wounds caused by this abuse can last for lifetime if nothing was done to heal them. Some people think that leaving the abusive partner alone is enough for …
Can a narcissist heal? Can a narcissist change if his emotional wounds healed? Because most of the people I coach are people who live with a narcissist, sometimes they ask me what they should do to help the narcissist they live with get over the emotional wounds that turned him into a narcissist. That’s why …
We live in a society where we have to behave, dress and live according to the norms in order to be considered normal and sane by others. When you do something or behave in a way that some people think is not appropriate, they may call you names like stupid, weirdo, foolish etc. Out of …
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