“Paradoxically, Controllers usually see themselves as self-reliant even while they are dependent upon others to maintain their backwards connections and their fragile identity. They often carry the banner of rugged independence, of needing no one, while launching an ever-accelerating assault… — Patricia Evans Copy Share Image
“But almost everyone I have spoken to has said that being the object of a Control Connection leaves them feeling disintegrated, as if they… — Patricia Evans Copy Share Image
“Paradoxically, Controllers usually see themselves as self-reliant even while they are dependent upon others to maintain their backwards connections and their fragile identity. They… — Patricia Evans Copy Share Image
“Verbal abuse by its very nature undermines and discounts its victim’s perceptions.” — Patricia Evans Copy Share Image
“People disconnect from us the moment they begin to define us. They begin to connect with us when they define themselves to us or… — Patricia Evans Copy Share Image
“In a verbally abusive relationship, the partner learns to tolerate abuse without realizing it and to lose self-esteem without realizing it. She is blamed… — Patricia Evans Copy Share Image
