Verbal Abuse: If You Can Recognize It, You Can Stop It
There's only one rule and it's simple, just "Blog Against Abuse". Any kind of abuse. The topic I've chosen to blog about is verbal abuse. I first became aware of the concept of verbal abuse in the mid-1990's, I guess. I was wandering through the eclectic mini bookstore of the university where I matriculated and then worked for several years, and the book titled "The Verbally Abusive Relationship" by Patricia Evans just jumped out at me. (There's a slide show of links at the end of this post, to Ms. Evans' books on Amazon - which are currently the best books available on the subject.) I read the bulleted list (below) from the back cover of the book and answered 'Yes!' to every question when apparently just one 'yes' would have made the book required reading: • Does your partner seem irritated or angry at you several times a week? • Does he deny being angry when he clearly is? • Do your attempts to discuss feelings of pain ...