Question: How Can Someone Identify and Respond to Verbal Abuse?

Verbal abuse is difficult to identify and regrettably can be a common type of abusein some marriages. Not all words that are meant to hurt are "ugly words." A master at verbal abuse can damage your self-esteem while, at the same time, appear to care deeply for you. The use of words to punish is a very covert attempt to control and regardless of how loving your spouse may appear to be, verbal abuse is wrong and can be just has harmful as physical abuse.

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[This article was written by CATHY MEYER, updated September 2, 2017 and can be found here.]