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Title: The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond
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| The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond by Adams Media Corporation Life-changing book |
| This book was like reading a chapter out of my life. When I read the checklist on behaviors, and could check 7 or 8 things off, I knew I had to act to change my life. I would read a passage and say, "Oh my God, that is me." I felt the worst when I read about what living in a verbally abusive relationship does to my children. I wish I could have started the response techniques that were written, but after 25 years, I figured it was too late to start. He has moved out, and I am beginning to find peace in my own home. I don't know what the future holds, but I will never be treated like that again! |
| The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond by Adams Media Corporation Doesn't address alcoholism |
| The book is good for what it's worth, but it doesn't address alcoholism at all. The first thing a partner of a verbal abuser should consider is whether there is alcoholism involved. Then it's a whole other issue! |
| The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond by Adams Media Corporation Verbal Abuse and Alcoholism |
I was called every name in the book by my alcoholic husband. He even criticized me because I peeled a cucumber "wrong"!! I have a Masters Degree in my field. He would tell me things that were in my OWN field. As Toby Rice Drews says in her book, "Getting Them Sober" ----- Getting Them Sober: You Can Help! (Getting Them Sober)"if Florence Nightingale was married to an alcoholic, he would have her convinced that she was a terrible nurse." Many of our verbal abusers have drinking problems and we don't often even recognize that it's alcoholism ---- but verbal abuse and alcoholism often go hand in hand. (According to the National Institute of Health, half of all American families have active alcoholism.) After years of being verbally abused and nitpiked to death---I began to doubt that I could do the most ordinary mundane tasks. Then I found the book, "Getting Them Sober" --- it gave me hundreds of practical ways to protect myself against abuse of all kinds. (No wonder 'dear Abby' endorsed the book, and wrote "this book should be read by everyone").
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| The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond by Adams Media Corporation Review: "The Verbally Abusive Relationship" |
| This book is phenomenal! Whether you are the perpetrator of the abuse or the victim of it, you will find solid information about -- and vital insights into -- this sometimes insidious problem. If you haven't already recognized a verbally abusive relationship that you are in, you will see it immediately upon reading Patricia Evans' book. If you have realized that you are being verbally abused, you will learn how to effectively respond to it. And, then, when it's all said and done, as a knowing victim of the abuse, you will see that this book will offer you the tremendously needed hope that you can and will recover. I highly recommend this book. |
| The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond by Adams Media Corporation Lollipop version |
| I DO recommend this book for anyone questioning their relationship for verbal abuse. I was a bit disappointed by the lollipop/bubblegum examples given for relationship discussions, but they were obvious enough to be understood and can easily be applied with some adjustments. I just felt that it seemed directed to people who were older rather than the general middle age group. I have other books from this author which I will be reading as well and hope to get more insight out of the material written. |
| The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond by Adams Media Corporation Book Description |
| If you or someone you know answers "yes" to one or more of the following questions, this book is required reading: Does your partner seem irritated or angry at you several times a week?
Does he deny being angry when he clearly is?
Do your attempts to discuss feelings of pain or emotional distress leave you with the feeling that the issue has not been resolved?
Do you frequently feel perplexed and frustrated by his responses, as though you were each speaking a different language? Almost everyone has heard of or knows someone who is part of a verbally abusive relationship-if they're not involved in one themselves. In The Verbally Abusive Relationship, you'll find validation and understanding-it's "not all in your head"-and encouragement for your efforts to change the situation. In this expanded second edition, author Patricia Evans explores the damaging effects of verbal abuse on children and the family, and offers valuable insight and recommendations to therapists, as well as those who seek therapeutic support. |
| The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond by Adams Media Corporation Amazon.com |
| Are you now, or have you ever been, in relationships with family, friends, or mates who have been verbally abusive? Is your happiness with someone you love continually threatened by interactions that continually undermine your self-esteem? Do you feel trapped in a relationship that keeps decaying in a downward spiral of overt or passive-aggressive abuse? If so, this book could be your life raft, either carrying you toward repair of the existing relationship or the effects of past relationships or offering liberation from your current confusion. Its practical approach can help clear your head and possibly change your life. The only criticism that I and other readers have is that the author assumes verbal abuse is almost always directed by males toward females, which, in my experience and that of others I know, is not necessarily the case. Highly Recommended. |
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