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how to deal with verbal abuse from your husband
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Has your husband ever defined you using negative words (e.g. loud rants, and passive-aggressive remarks)? Has your husband got accustomed to using verbal abuse to attack you as a weapon?
Verbal abuse often happens on the brink of collapse of a romantic relationship. It belongs to a psychological or emotional abuse. In the marriage, the scars caused by verbal abuse may not be physically seen in some ways, but they are much worse than the physical damage to your body, as they may disfigure your sense of self-worth. If you do not know how to deal with verbal abuse from your husband, you may read the tips below:
(1) Verbal abuse is not a necessary conversation:
While your husband is hurling abuse or insults at you, he just focuses on your supposed faults or shortcomings, instead of patiently listening to your explanation to clear his misunderstanding. If you treat it as a normal conversation, exchanging viewpoints in such a disrespectful and hurtful way just tends to make each other engage in repeated verbal abuse. Although it is tempting to respond to his abusive words at that moment, if you do, probably the situation will escalate into physical violence. In this case, you may firmly but calmly ask your husband to stop, even if he doesn’t, you had better walk away simply.
(2) Seek supportive advice:
If you are regularly subjected to your partner’s verbal abuse, you are very likely to lose perspective from your own angle. Once you believe what he said, then you will automatically associate yourself with a variety of negative information, such as “a fat woman”, “a stupid woman”, “an ugly woman”, ”a terrible housekeeper”, “a bad mother”, and so on. Before you take action to address the problem, you have to be aware which part of what he said is not real. Therefore, you may confide in your relatives and close friends, because they know you and love you, and they are willing to assist you to rebuild your self-esteem and confidence. In addition, you may also seek professional suggestion from other people who are known to be experienced in handling the cases of domestic violence and abuse, such as marriage counselors, they are more capable of confirming which things goes beyond your arguments and offering valuable tips on how to make the relationship work.
(3) Re-consider your options:
As long as you are sure you still love him, you should try your best to end his constant abusive behavior. You should give yourself enough time to consider, realistically and dispassionately, about yourself, your partner and the development of your marriage. Only you know whether your relationship has broken down irretrievably or not. And no one like you knows him well enough to realize how likely he is willing to clean up his act for saving the marriage.
(4) Seek marriage counseling:
If you believe that there is a chance your relationship can be salvaged, you may consider marriage counseling as a positive approach to relating to your partner. An impartial intermediary plays a role in translating your feeling and thoughts to your partner, while steering a dialogue between both of you in a productive manner. If your partner acknowledges the harm created by his verbal abuse, has the will to stop verbal abuse but balks at marriage counseling, you are still suggested to go to consult alone. Professional counselors must have encountered a man’s reluctance to discuss his private issues with strangers for many times, probably they also have their unique ways to make your man feel less insecure during the counseling process.
(5) When all your efforts fail:
If all your efforts do not avail anything, leaving your spouse becomes the most extreme way to shut down your spouse’s verbal abuse, but probably you will have to do so. If you go this way, what is to happen to your relationship will be dictated by your own individual circumstances, because your husband actually attempts to gain more control over you by verbal abuse, but leaving him equals to an admission – “Don’t want to control me.” In the best case, both of you will stick to not crossing the red line between verbal violence and physical violence; but in case your partner wants to threaten or hit you, you will have to learn to lower the risk level, especially if your children are involved.
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