Have you wondered if your husband’s behavior is emotionally abusive? Or what happens to a person after years of emotional abuse? Understanding the long-term effects of emotional abuse can help motivate you to take your emotional safety seriously.
Before going further, if you want to know if you’ve experienced any of the 19 types of emotional abuse, take this free emotional abuse quiz.
Once you know if you’ve experienced emotional abuse, here are a few things every woman should know about what happens to a person after years of emotional abuse:
1. Lying Is Emotional Abuse
When your husband habitually lies—whether about small everyday matters or significant ones—it undermines your sense of reality. It can destabilize your emotions. This type of gaslighting is a common emotional abuse tactic.
Being in proximity to a liar has long-term effects, including anxiety, hypervigilance, and loss of self-confidence.
To discover how often your husband uses lying to emotionally abuse you, take note when your husband’s words don’t align with his actions. Writing down each instance can help you see patterns over time.
2. Pornography Use Is Emotional Abuse
Many women don’t realize that a husband’s pornography use qualifies as emotional abuse. Research shows that pornography consumption is linked to betrayal, objectification, and emotional withdrawal in relationships. If your husband has a secret sexual life, it undermines intimacy and your sense of emotional safety.
3. Blaming You Is Emotional Abuse
Does your husband often shift blame onto you for his mistakes, outbursts, or inappropriate behavior? The goal of this emotional abuse tactic is to make you feel guilty, responsible, or “not good enough” so you’ll continue to work hard and he can exploit your hard work. Common phrases might include statements like, “I wouldn’t have done this if you weren’t so [fill in the blank],” or “You’re so sensitive; it’s not a big deal.”
Blame-shifting is overt emotional abuse and has long term effects. Doubting truth or your own sense of reality is one of the most common symptom of a person who has been emotionally abused for years.
If your husband is blaming you for everything going wrong in your marriage, you need support. Attend a Betrayal Trauma Recovery Group Session to see if you relate to the other women going through this. If so, you’ll know that the blame he’s been heaping on you for years is emotional abuse.
The Right Support Is Key to Healing After Years of Emotional Abuse
Years of emotional abuse can seriously harm your mental and emotional well-being. But there is hope. A supportive community, like Betrayal Trauma Recovery Group Sessions, can help you feel peace. Attend a Betrayal Trauma Recovery Group Session TODAY.
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