If you're in a relationship with someone who guilts you into spending time with them or calls you names, you could be ...

Verbal abuse leaves invisible wounds that can be just as painful and damaging as physical injury. Unlike bruises or broken bones, these emotional injuries remain hidden from view, often making them ...

Some people struggle to realize that they're victims of domestic violence or to leave the relationship. Domestic violence is ...

Reese Witherspoon is opening up about the aftermath of her past abusive relationship. 'My spirit had been diminished because ...

Other aspects of the relationship may work well: The abuser may be loving between abusive episodes, so that you deny or forget them. You may not have had a healthy relationship for comparison, and ...

The partner is conditioned from early childhood not to trust her feelings and not to recognize the irrationality of verbal abuse. All verbal abuse is irrational. In the context of war, the rationality ...

Dear Abby: My best friend “Pat” and I live on opposite sides of the country. I am very concerned about Pat’s daughter and ...

Harsh words can wound—and when directed at children, they can have a lifelong impact. Research has shown that when words are routinely used by the adults in their lives to humiliate, shame or control ...

Defendant Karina Cooper reacts after state witness Kirstie Sheda says that she talked about shooting a .22 caliber gun during Karina Cooper’s trial at the Linn County Courthouse in Cedar Rapids on ...