When it comes to an abusive relationship, the abuse can be manifested in many ways. We often think only of physical or sexual abuse, but in reality things such as 'teasing' and mocking someone and constantly undermining a persons worth can also be classified as...

Abusive dating is becoming a bigger and bigger problem across all age groups. That's the bad news, the good news is that in many instances the signs of a would be abuser can be seen within the first few dates, that gives you plenty of time to cut things off before...

The popular childhood maxim stated that “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” However, this could not be farther from the truth; as those in the midst of mentally abusive relationships, will verify. (...)

Often you find women speaking about spousal abuse or the newspapers running in news about spousal abuse. Many women are still facing spousal abuse in their day to day lives. Women are still being threatened, beaten up and faced with all sorts of abuse. (...)

Emotional abuse is a form of abuse where one person or persons in a relationship subjects or exposes the other person or persons in the relationship to behavior that is psychologically harmful. (...)

Abusive relationships have become alarmingly common. You must keep in mind that violence is not an absolute necessity for a relationship to be an abusive one. However, violence is often the end result of such a relationship. (...)

Every once in a while we hear a story about an abusive relationship. Very few people take it seriously and those who are not in such relationships often don’t even consider the fact that they might get into one themselves. (...)

Feminist organizations and other activists have long focused on the female as being the weaker sex and more prevalent to suffering abuse in a relationship, this is not always the case. Whether physical emotional or verbal the issues of women have always come to the...

Domestic violence is when one person uses abusive behavior in a relationship tries to control the other. Relationships can include marriage, cohabitation, friendship or even parent-child. Abusive behavior can range from physical abuse to emotional torment to sexual...

Abuse is when one partner uses fear, intimidation, humiliation, and manipulation tactics among others to control another. Emotional abuse is abuse that is emotional and not physical or sexual in nature. Emotional abuse is a form of domestic violence. (...)

If you are in an abusive relationship, you would know that signs of abusive relationships are in fact rather ambiguous. There have been enough and more cases where people just pretend to be a happily married couple whilst acting like Neanderthals behind closed doors. (...)

Verbal abuse is a form of abusive behavior which involves the use of language. Verbal abuse frequently occurs in relationships between men and women. In a verbal abusive relationship the typical condition is seen as the male being the perpetrator and the female being...

When it comes to verbally abusive men, you should be able to gauge one before you actually get involved with one of them. What you should ideally be doing is to see how you can actually spot one before you make the mistake of being committed to one. (...)

Violent relationships can occur at many levels form subtle forms of abuse to life threatening ones, under no circumstances should anyone tolerate any form of abuse and violence in relationships. (...)