Physical & Emotional Abuse Support Group
Abuse is a general term for the treatment of someone that causes some kind of harm (to the abused person, to the abusers themselves, or to someone else) that is unlawful or wrongful. No one deserves abuse, period. Abuse can be emotional, physical, or sexual.
Withholding as a form of abuse. Withholding contact, love, affection, communication, information... It hurts. Anyone relate?
deleted_user
My STBX has always done that. If I don't want to have sex, or I don't want to talk to him, he completely ignores me, even to the extent of "punishing" me by sleeping in the other room...
deleted_user
oh, yeah, that is a form of abuse, been there!
queenvalerie
This was one of my ex's prime ways of "dealing" with me. He would ignore everything I said, everything I did, every I felt until he thought I was under control. By the time he came around to paying attention to me I was so emotionally crippled that I would do anything. Yes I understand and yes it hurts.
deleted_user
ditto
deleted_user
I have been there twice - once with my xhusband who would sleep in another room just to make me angry and hurt me and then with my xboyfriend, he would curl up in a ball on the other end of the couch and not touch me or sleep in another room. It hurts and it's sick - and it's a trait of a controling, manipulative abuser.
deleted_user
Oh the dreaded "silent-treatment" Ot is abuse!!! (and so passive-aggresive). I hate that one too. If I don't want to be intimate w/my husband I get it too, so unfair and unkind.Not to mention uncomfortable . I just muddle thru w/chores or other things like reading etc.. but it is scary cuz the pressure that is building has got to explode eventually and look out when it does!!!
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theatre and I are there already. I'm having a very berry tea with crackers, cheese and cherry tomatoes and she's having a joint with some beer and we're both on really comfy recliners on thick pile carpet. we need some help with the decor if anyone is around??
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