Emotional Abuse In Romantic Relationships

The single worst deterrent to domestic abuse prevention is the lack of acknowledgment, and that problem starts at home. In 2009, NBC News quoted Marjorie Gilberg, director of teen-violence prevention organization Break The Cycle, saying ‘“There’s definitely a lack of awareness about the prevalence of abuse among teens in their relationships,”’ (“Most States”). Only 19% of parents firmly believe that teenage dating violence is a prevalent issue (“Dating Abuse Statistics”). And while 82% of parents believe they would know if their child was experiencing dating abuse, 58% of parents could not correctly identify the signs. Loveisrespect, an organization dedicated to providing accurate information about dating, healthy behavior, and abuse, makes the bold statement that college students are ill-equipped to cope with dating abuse. Fifty-seven percent of college students say that dating abuse is problematic to identify, and fifty-eight percent of college students say that they wouldn’t know how to help a victim currently experiencing dating abuse.With nearly half (43%) of dating college women experiencing violent/abusive behaviors, this is information that needs to be distributed (“Get the Facts and Figures”). If one girl isn’t experiencing abuse, her friend or classmate is. Boyfriend/girlfriend

I chose this topic because I feel it meets a true community need; too many young people, girls in particular, are falling prey to abusive relationships. The effects are far-reaching, and the loss of self-esteen that so often occurs leaves invisible scars. I also feel that emotional abuse among young girls in dating realtionships is far too often ignored, and when it is recognized, many people do not know how to help the young girls deal with it in an effective manner.

In a natural survey conducted in England, women reported higher rates of intimate partner violence than men, whether the violence was physical or emotional (Jonas et al., 2014). Intimate partner violence among college students appears to be similar to research on adult married and cohabiting couples. A five-year longitudinal study of more than 2,000 college students in the United States showed that twenty-six percent of college students experienced physical intimate partner violence in their freshman year (Nabors & Jasinski, 2009). As a college student and friend of many, I believe that it is important for me become more knowledgeable about intimate partner violence and know about the characteristics of an abuser. There are four types or characteristics

The effects emotional abuse has on a victim will stick with them for their entire life. Even the smallest event can, and usually will, trigger horrific memories that create anxiety and makes it a struggle to interact with others. It causes the victim to withdraw from society because they feel they are not worry of social interaction. When a person is repeatedly told they are stupid, worthless or any other degrading comments, they begin to believe them. Even worse, they start to believe they deserve the comments and think they have to change who they are as a person to fit the expectations of the abuser.

“I remember him using drugs and alcohol. He would start provoking me with sarcasm and verbal intentions. I wouldn’t act back because I had a beautiful little girl, who shared the same heartbeat as mine for nine months to protect. Under those circumstances, he would get even more infuriated and start pushing me, touching my face roughly, and intentionally wanting me to give him a reason to hit me. That’s when the toxic cycle began. He would start hitting me, throwing me against the cold, white walls. When he saw me bleeding and heard the historical cries of our daughter, he would snap out of a somewhat like trans and repeat over and over “I’m sorry, I won’t do it again. I love the both of you dearly and I don’t want

In today’s world, many have become apathetic to the problems around them thus causing the problems to grow and become larger issues. While there are thousands of ideas of what the most concerning problems in the world are, all issues can be broken down to two basic ideas that either cause the conflict or are the effect, contentment and regret. With the recent terrorist attacks in France, there are many individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder. According to the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, “About 6 of every 10 (or 60%) of men and 5 of every 10 (or 50%) of women experience at least one trauma in their lives” (PTSD: National Center for PTSD).

The research experiment “Physical and Emotional Abuse in Romantic Relationships: Motivation for Perpetration Among College Women” is conducted by Penny A. Leirsring, Ph.D.

The CDC reports that nearly half of all men and women in the United States have been psychologically abused by a romantic partner, while around a quarter of women and 1 in 7 men have been physically abused [2]. This is a dramatic difference from areas like the United Kingdom, where 8.2% of women and 4% of men have been abused [3] One in three people experience abuse by a romantic partner by the age of eighteen [4]. In 2015, 87% of hospitalized abuse victims in New York state were women, and were admitted more often than male victims [5]. This can likely be partially attributed to traditional gender roles, which assume that men are “stronger” than women and are “weak” if they are hurt by a woman.

Disclosure: I am not an expert, a doctor, or professional. What I discuss here are things that I have gone through, personally. I am speaking on my behalf.

The male partner shows male privilege by making the female partner do the household chores. Such as, cooking, cleaning, and laundry. Both partner’s use emotional abuse when they are upset with each other. They will call each other names, or state the other partner is being stupid if they disagree. The female partner has a three year old son with a previous person who is no longer in the child’s life. The female partner is very protective and does not approve of the male partner bringing the child places that are unfamiliar to the female partner. This has resulted in arguments where the male partner states the female partner cannot have a say about the future children they plan on having together.

On the one hand, the emotionally abused are mainly females that have experienced a dramatic trauma in their life (Etain et al, 2010). According to Burns et al., (2010) women who had been sexually, physically, or emotionally abused are greater emotion instruction compared to women without abuse histories. Many women who have been sexually, physically, or emotionally abused have a greater aggression of emotion compared to women who have never had an abusive history. In the study done by Burns et al., (2010) asked 912 female college students to participant in a survey which revealed that women who has reported a history of sexual, physical, or emotional abuse which later resulted in them having emotional problems, which later cause depression during their lifetime. Bell and Higgins (2015) supported the idea that physically abused women with childhood emotional abuse (CEA) may increase the risk for intimate partner violence (IPV) within youthful and adult relationships. IPV may later on cause the women to select a partner,

There is a cancer plaguing the land, which is slaughtering the very fabric of every relationship in its path. Abuse comes in a myriad of forms, and the aftermath has a negative impact that is unending. One may ask what is abuse, or what does an abuser look like. Particularly, this cancerous condition is not discriminatory against any social class; hence, an abuser can be of any race or gender. Moreover, it comes in a myriad of forms. Nevertheless, the most prevalent ones perpetrated in relationships are verbal, emotional, and physical abuse.

Eva, whose son is addicted to heroin gets this crazy idea that killing her own son would allow him to die with some pride rather than one day killing himself over a heroin related death. “She rolled a bit of newspaper into a tight stick about six inches long, lit it and threw it onto the bed where the kerosene-soaked Plum lay in the sung delight (Sula 47).” Now Hannah, Eva’s oldest daughter down the road calls out Eva asking if she has ever loved her or her siblings “Did you ever, you know, play with us (Sula 118)?” You can not give your kids everything but that doesn’t mean you don’t love them. Sometimes you need to let your kids know you love them because they don’t always realize you do through your actions, Like Eva staying in an abusive

I have fallen in love once, but it wasn’t your ideal love story. The guy I was in love with, seemed harmless when I first became involved with him. However, as the relationship grew, he began to abuse me: emotionally and physically. I was terrified, as he began to holler hurtful phrases and names at me, along with leaving bruises on my body. Who could I have turned to? What if he continues to hurt me, or even exceed what damage he’s already done if I were to tell anyone? Empathy and compassion should be directed towards this issue because dating abuse is a continuous event that is still occuring to young adolecents today. One of the many problems in the world is that dating abuse is prominent, but it is not being acknowledged

How can it be it be possible for someone to suffer from emotional abuse during their lifetime? Every day numerous cases of emotional abuse go unreported because most individuals who experience this type of abuse are not aware that this is happening in their life. It can actually seem ordinary at first. Emotional abuse can sneak up like an odorless gas.