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5 Ways You Know You’re Being Emotionally Abused by a Narcissists
They all run the same game out of the same playbook. Once you know the strategy you will beat them every time.
2 min readMay 16, 2023
If you’ve been in an emotionally abusive relationship, you know the damaging effects it can have on you mentally. It can take you years to sort out what happened as well as possibly carrying the unhealed trauma into new relationships.
An abuser can use any of the five below to make you question your sanity and keep you under their control. Many are abused for years before they realize what they are experiencing is, in fact, abuse.
- Gaslighting: There is no worse emotional torture than making someone question their sanity and reality. This is far worse than even Physical Abuse, I believe. This is # 1 in my book! And repeated gaslighting can do long-term damage. You will spend years questioning and breaking down each issue you had with this person. And the majority of the time, you will find yourself wanting to take the blame for their abuse.
- Betrayal: Here, they make a person question their self-worth. This is right up there with gaslighting, damaging as hell. There is no better way to make a person question why they weren’t enough than to cheat on someone. If you feel the need to…