|THE COMPLICATED DYNAMICS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE |
|HOW IT PROVOKES THE COUNSELOR/HELPER RELATIONSHIP |
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|Shannon L Crockett |
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Allowing yourself to feel more empathy for one group verses another could easily be perceived as you believing perhaps another group could have somehow prevented the abuse.
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CO-DEPENDENT: I am afraid of being hurt or rejected.
ABUSED: Having been hurt and rejected, I am scared of re-victimization.
CO-DEPENDENT: I tend to harshly judge everything I do, think, or say, by someone else's standards. Nothing is done, said or thought "good enough."
ABUSED: My abuser harshly judges everything I do, think, or say. Nothing I do is "good enough."
CO-DEPENDENT: I question or ignore my own values to connect with significant others. I value others' opinions more than my own.
ABUSED: My values and opinions are questioned/ignored by my abuser. For my safety I do not express my own opinions.
CO-DEPENDENT: My self-esteem is bolstered by outer/other influences.
ABUSED: My self-esteem is systematically destroyed by my abuser's tactics.
Checklists to help you determine if you are in an abusive relationship.
You are probably the victim of emotional abuse if your partner:
• Repeatedly gives you destructive criticism, verbal threats and browbeating.
• Always claims to be right.
• Excludes you from making decisions and claims to be the head of the household.
• Abuses your trust by lying, hiding important information and papers, cheating or being inappropriately