“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 by the abuser and becomes the scapegoat. The partner is then the victim.” — 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
