An Abusive Relationship

The New Media Journal ^ | July 10, 2007 | Erik Rush

[NewMediaJournal]

If you’ve never been in an abusive relationship (physically or emotionally, what is being increasingly referred to as “toxic” these days), no doubt you know at least one person who is now or has been. Often it’s a wife who’s torn between trying to keep a family together versus her sanity or her life. If she’s lucky enough to escape, she’ll often be very careful about whom she lets get close and seeks some professional help if she’s smart.

Then there’s the other type of person (of course, any of these instances could be a man or woman, married or otherwise) who continually bounces from one toxic relationship to another, wasting years as they deny reality, the admonition of family and friends and finally get out – only to immediately find someone else equally or far more manipulative, cruel, antisocial or just plain unbalanced.

The only thing bystanders (friends, loved ones, etc.) can generally do is be frustrated with or emotionally detach from such an individual; despite the sufferer’s pain often being largely of their own making, this doesn’t diminish the heartbreak of observing such a life, hearing the stories, and watching self-esteem or physical health – or both – wane.

[the anti-liberal]

It takes two to tango.

People are filled with toxins daily, just from watching tv, for example. Don't be surprised when that toxicity shows up in relationships.

[nmh]

Homosexuality is founded on abuse - physical and emotional.

[mountainlyons]

The lying left news media has a toxic abusive relationship with President bush.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

What a load of crap!

[GoldenPup]

Abusive relationship? HA!! The SOB has to sleep sometime. (One of the chief domestic abuses in Germany is “abuse by frying pan”. Hmmmmm...wonder what happened to the rolling pin??

[elephantlips]

There is no emotional abuse as toxic as what a woman can produce. You don’t need to be physically superior to inflict that kind of pain and women have had that ability fine-honed for centuries no matter what their original justification may have been.

[the anti-liberal]

"Hmmmmm...wonder what happened to the rolling pin??"

Women don't make their own dough anymore, is my guess.

[the anti-liberal]

Can’t argue with that. Or them.