If you're at the point of admitting that you are in an emotionally abusive relationship, how often have you asked, "How in the world I have never in this regard?"
If you feel stuck and if you have tried time and again to get out of this relationship with a loved one, you've probably asked this question hundreds of times. People around you have come to the point where they pretty much just shake their heads and have no voice.
And you, you find yourself speechless as you struggle in disbelief know that reality in your life. You try to understand when and how things went wrong and you do this for several reasons depending on where you are in the relationship.
One reason is that you think you can fix anything that is broken and the other reason is that you want to make sure this never happens to you again in this life. So when is it and how emotional abuse in a relationship start?
Emotional abuse starts at the point that disrespect or injustice is happening to you and you allow. The horrible reality of this truth is that most often the initial act of disrespect and / or injustice has happened to you at a point in your life when you were not able to stop it.
If you were a child and treated with disrespect and injustice many situations were present. First, you have been learning about life and what to expect in given circumstances and had no idea what was respectful, disrespectful, just or unjust.
Second of all, as a child with disrespect or injustice against you, what could you do about it? You have learned to respond in a manner that caused as a game little as possible.
You have begun to respond to a pattern and this pattern carried over to adulthood. Unfortunately, not before entering a relationship of emotional abuse that brought you to the end of the rope to realize that you want happiness instead of pain and something has to change.
In this process, you are looking for the answer, "When and how emotional abuse start?" You aspire to learn how to stop the model that has been operating in your life to surround yourself with healthy relationships.
How can this be done? By learning some communication skills and become aware of your feelings when you are in a conversation.