How to recocnize emotional abuse

Yes, abuse never changes. But victims of abuse have issues all thier own to overcome. Until a parent, a lover, or a friend has hit you, and told you how stupid you are, or held a gun to your head, you will never know how it feels. Try being afraid to sleep, and having a knife under your pillow. Try being afraid to stay at the grocery for more time than "he thinks" it takes. Try to have friends, and be close to your family. Wear long sleeves in the winter to cover your bruises....that is abuse....

Oh girl! Run away before it is too late. You don't have to leave your child. You are the mother, the child goes with you. You are describing my ex. Guess what, he hit me eventually. I made the same excuses as you did. Please please please run before you are damaged for life.

I went through extensive therapy, am on medication and can still barely think normally. What he did to me is what is going to happen to you. He does not love you, you do not love him. You need him because you have become a junkie to the highs that follow the lows. GET OUT!