Tag: Abusive

How to Identify if Your Relationship Is Emotionally Abusive

ust over a year ago I was in an emotionally abusive relationship with a man who had strong covert narcissistic tendencies. Adam was deeply intelligent and at first seemed both uncommonly sensitive and kind. His patterns of manipulative and subtly malicious behavior took about three months to show...

Enabling is an abusive word these days.

People who have loved ones that suffer from problematic drug use are in enough pain as it is. They don’t need an armchair parent or friend sitting on the sidelines warning them against the evils of enabling. Don’t get me wrong. I believe in having healthy boundaries and protecting o...