
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.

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I left my husband before I actually left my husband. What I mean is that emotionally after about 6 years of abuse, I just left him. We wre still physically living together, but I had no feelings for him. In fact I had no feelings at all--I would not allow myself to feel as a way to protect myself. It was really difficult to reconnect with my feelings because I had not had any for so long.
I am interested to know how others have reconnected with their feelings. The first step I took was going to the gym, and kickboxing the anger away and then thinking about the abuse and crying. Then I worked on therapy and then finally the Universal Laws.
I am interested to know how others have reconnected with their feelings. The first step I took was going to the gym, and kickboxing the anger away and then thinking about the abuse and crying. Then I worked on therapy and then finally the Universal Laws.
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I was just asking how other people handled their PTSD. I want to learn and grow.
Is emotional withdrawl from a realitonship before the realitionship is actually over Couldn't that be a form of emotional abuse?
The reason I ask this is my wife did the same to me. What made it so bad was I was bed ridden and depended on her for alot ALOT of thing emotional and physcial. When she cut me out emotionaly I saw it and felt it. It hurt and it hurt bad..... I did react to it and I'm sure as she became more and more distant to me and my feelings that she felt justified in doing what she did.... But she was wrong... she should have just simply said I can't handle this anymore and ended the realitionship. Instead I was treated like I didn't deserve to sit in the same room with her and even worse when coming out of a counsleing session she told me " if I leave you now I can still have healthy childern with someone else"... I still hurt because of that comment which was made over two years ago.
What I read a lot on these fourms is something along the lines in which you have written. Someone emotionally withdraws from the realitionship the problems really get bad then people position themselfs then the divorce and the bitterness begins.
I guess I'm just wondering if people actually understand how devestating it is to a realitionship?
Thanks for bringing that up. I really do not know the answer to your question in terms of your relationship. I do think in your relationship there was definitely a communication break down.
But not all emotional withdrawal is the same. In my case, I emotionally withdrew because I wa getting beaten up everyday and it was a self-preservation defense mechanism. It was a RESULT of abuse, not the cause, in my case. It is a classic symptom of PTSD when physical abuse occurs.