Love Me or Hate Me… asked:


My husband has recently found out some things about his ex from her family. They’ve told him that she’s favors her other child over his (& it’s been brought to her attention by them) but she does nothing about it. They say that the favoritism from her (& her new husband) is completely blatant. Not to mention they’ve heard that when the boy gets into trouble, his time out is being put in his room with the door shut for an hour or more and that the husband has hit the mother at least once during an argument. The physical abuse/locking in a room is only hear-say… they’ve never witnessed or gotten her to confess to anything. However, the emotional abuse they’ve seen with their own eyes and are willing to testify for my husband to help us get custody. Will her grandmother and mother’s testimony that she’s emotionally abusive to the child be enough to get us primary custody? We plan on having him evaluated to see what a professional says about the emotional/physical abuse.
“Putting a kid in his room, with the door closed, for an hour is hardly abusive.”

That may be true for an older child, but this boy isn’t even 2 years old yet… That’s exessive punishment in my book.

Colin

scsspace asked:


Do they affect a person differently and is one worse than another? If yes, which order?

Pauline

Shannen asked:


I know there are cases where someone can be removed from a family situation if there is physical or sexual abuse, but what about emotional abuse? I’m 16 years old and i don’t know if i will be able to hold out for another year of school and living with my mother. She is emotionaly abusing me so much that i am at the breaking point. I sometimes wish i had the balls to kill myself. It’s just getting so bad that i can’t take it anymore.

I don’t know where else to turn. I have a councelor that i’ve had ever since my mom made us f*cking homeless but i haven’t seen her in a while and i feel like everyone is just abandoning me. I don’t know what to do.

Sometimes i feel like i need my mother so much, but other times i just want to kill her.

Geoff

Thundercat asked:


Domestic violence against women can be tracked through police reports and the courts. Emotional abuse against a woman may often be followed by physical abuse so that aspect can be tracked as well. Since women tend to be smaller than men, I would suspect the intensity of physical violence against them is low. But what about emotional abuse? Does it equal the level of physical violence against women? It is hard to track since a man is not going to call the police and say “My wife is mean to me all the time.” I know of two male coworkers who are having to deal with a significant amount of emotional abuse (one divorcing, one not) from their wives.

Lee