Language influences how we act and how we speak. If our pain, emotional or otherwise, has been minimized, we minimize our own wants and needs.
All tagged emotional abuse
"I'm not being hit but..." : inside emotional abuse
Emotional abuse can look many different ways. But it always feels wrong. Emotional abuse is a series of actions, micro-aggressions almost, that an abuser says or does to maintain power and control over someone else. Does this sound familiar?