The psychological abuse in the partner It is a behavior of verbal aggression that one person exercises against another in which it is intended to dominate them more and more until they are totally or almost totally deprived of their sense of freedom. The reason why the abuser manages to deprive her partner of her sense of freedom is that the latter, in most cases, fails to realize that that she is being abused, so she comes to see the situation of abuse, which at first is not so intense, as something normal and she is getting used to her. On the other hand, it is also normal that at the beginning of the relationship, psychological abuse is not so evident and so easy to identify for the person who is being a victim of it.
If we can identify some signs of psychological abuse in the relationship, we would help many people who are living this situation even without knowing it to start putting a stop to people that they are abusing them and future related problems such as physical abuse, which is very common after abuse, would be prevented psychological. That is why in Psychology-Online, we are going to give you a series of signs so that you can know
It is important to keep in mind that we can never generalize and say that all people who have these characteristics are necessarily going to be abusive people. So that it is necessary to analyze the context in which this type of conduct is developed before issuing a value judgment.
- He is very possessive. The abuser (a) tend to distance more and more their partner from important people to them such as family and friends. So she tries to get you to be by her side all the time, as well as to make you do things that she wants, for example the abusive person may telling your partner not to dress in a certain way, not to visit certain places, may pretend to prohibit you from having relationships with certain people, etc.
- He's too jealous. It is common for people who exercise psychological abuse against their partner, tend to be too jealous. It is normal that to a certain extent you can feel jealousy towards your partner but the jealousy that these types of people feel are exaggerated, irrational and uncontrollable.
- Is verbally aggressive with other people. When the person is verbally aggressive with others, offends them, speaks ill of them, insults them and / or hurts them, it is very likely that he will do the same with his partner.
- He is not happy with himself. They tend to be people who are not comfortable with who they are or with what they have, they complain a lot about what they are what happens to them and although many times they want to prove otherwise, they are dissatisfied with them themselves.
- It is very insecure. They are very insecure people who need to take advantage of others in order to feel better about themselves since deep down they feel much lower than themselves.
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In conclusion, it is worth mentioning that in order to know how to detect psychological abuse in the couple, you should be aware that for many people it may not be easy at first to achieve it, why? Because as time goes by they feel more and more dominated and their self-esteem is getting lower, so they tend to ignore all situations of abuse, coming to perceive them as normal.
This is why it is important detect this type of behavior early to put a stop to it more easily and not achieve that the abuser (a) ends up totally dominating the life of the abused person. In case the couple has 1 or more of the attitudes mentioned above, as well as any other where the lack of assessment by the couple, it must be taken as an alarm signal that indicates that abuse may continue to increase with the passage of weather.
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This article is merely informative, in Psychology-Online we do not have the power to make a diagnosis or recommend a treatment. We invite you to go to a psychologist to treat your particular case.
