I Just Lost Myself: Psychological Abuse of Women in Marriage by Valerie Nash Chang

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By Valerie Nash Chang

Psychological abuse might be as harmful to the psyche as actual abuse may be to the physique, but little is written approximately this universal challenge. This booklet confronts the difficulty of mental abuse of ladies in marriage. mental abuse includes an on-going trend of domination, oppression, unrealistic expectancies, verbal attacking or silent withdrawal inside of a dating ordinarily without emotional connection. the writer addresses the questions of the way and why those ladies are abused, how the abuse begins and progresses, and in what methods does the method fluctuate from that of actual abuse? utilizing costs from survivors of those relationships, Dr. Chang describes lifestyles inside of this sort of relationships and provides remedy recommendations.

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I started feeling different about myself. I started feeling better about myself. I was more confident with less drug use. I wasn’t as angry. It was getting harder to provoke me. I dated men, but I was always in control of what was going on. . I’d become, after so many years, a master of manipulation of men and controlling of men to get what I wanted from them because I knew how to do it. I knew their weak points. I’m a very intelligent woman, and I became like them. I was one of them—emotionally unavailable, manipulative, controlling.

Both of Becky’s parents were insensitive to her needs. ’’ Looking back, Becky thinks that her exhusband is a lot like her father. My husband is just like that, very demanding. I remember my mom, my dad would want steak. He would come home from a long run, so she would go and buy him steak and we had to eat hamburger. That was something that always bothered me. Becky met her husband when she was in her early twenties; he was a lot older. She began dating him when he was going through his divorce.

He would write and sometime I’d get his letters and then eventually my mother started to destroy the letters. . One day I went home and I found one in the trash with a picture and the letter was torn up. He was saying in that letter that he was coming home on leave. My mother had put the word out that he had better not show his face at our house. So I never did get to really date the guy or anything. My mother come up with this idea that I was kind of sexually active. . ’’ And I’m going like, who is this woman, who is this human being?

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