Jasmine808 asked:


A friend of mine is leaving her husband who is emotionally abusive. I know that without some serious counseling, it’s difficult for an abusive person to change. If you’ve been in this situation, did it ever get better? My suspicion is that things remain the same. If her husband has spent the past decade being controlling, verbally abusive and selfish then he’ll continue that habit. How did you marriage survive emotional abuse?

Brian

Bloated Whale asked:


We know there is mental abuse going on with my fiancee’s daughter because she is denied visits with him and his ex and she’s not allowed to see her halfsiblings, and she’s told that her parents don’t want to come see her. How can mental abuse be proved so they can win their court case?

Vicki

Gina asked:


I am friends with a married couple. The husband is physically and mentally abusive — I have witnessed the terrible verbal abuse, and I know he has been arrested for domestic violence, and has even broken bones.

But if you sit down and talk to him, he makes it seem like it’s his wife’s fault. He says, “I may be mean to her, but I have a reason. She treats me so horribly — she is so mean to me — for no reason.” Even though I hate myself for it, and I feel as if I am being manipulated, I feel like maybe she makes his life miserable for him and he is just retaliating.

Is there ANY way she deserves his treatment of her — is it really, as he says, a two-way street?

Kerri