by Loren Keeling | Jan 26, 2026 | Toxic Relationships
5 Shocking Tactics of Hidden Emotional Abuse The most effective cage isn’t built of steel bars; it’s built of unprecedented kindness. It doesn’t start with shouting, insults, or control. It starts with gestures of profound understanding and a sense...
by Loren Keeling | Dec 29, 2025 | Toxic Relationships
Surviving the “Wednesday Girl” Confession & Betrayal Trauma. December 26th marks the eighth anniversary of a day that shattered my world and irrevocably changed the course of my life. The raw, poignant energy of that specific December is perfectly...
by Loren Keeling | Dec 23, 2025 | Toxic Relationships
5 Shocking Truths Behind Narcissistic ‘Future Faking’ The Seductive Illusion of ‘Someday’ Have you ever been in a relationship that felt like a beautiful dream of the future, yet the reality of the present was confusing and painful? One moment, your...
by Loren Keeling | Nov 24, 2025 | Toxic Relationships
6 Surprising Legal Truths About Your Financial Rights After a Breakup Many long-term, unmarried couples building a life together in Spain operate under a dangerous assumption: that after enough time, their living together relationship legally transforms into a...
by Loren Keeling | Nov 17, 2025 | Toxic Relationships
Intro: When “The End” is Only the Beginning Most of us view the end of a relationship as a painful but definitive conclusion. However, a “discard” is not a normal relationship break-up. A normal break-up is a chapter closing, a period of grief...
by Loren Keeling | Nov 10, 2025 | Toxic Relationships
Why Your Ex’s Court Tactics are Post-Separation Abuse Post-separation Abuse in Family Court If you are a survivor of abuse in a relationship, the separation may feel like just the beginning of the battle—not the end. You went to the family court seeking...
by Loren Keeling | Nov 3, 2025 | Toxic Relationships
The Aftermath After five years of legal intimidation, litigation abuses and a situation of extreme emotional abuse and psychological harm. I want to revisit the betrayal, the emotional impact and look at a hypothetical scenario of Flipping the Script on Infidelity and...
by Loren Keeling | Oct 6, 2025 | Toxic Relationships
My lived experience. I now call the abrupt termination of the relationship a four-sentence discard speech. Here are the words he used to end a relationship that spanned eleven years. In fact he denied that we had a relationship. I now do not want to refer to it as a...
by Loren Keeling | Aug 9, 2025 | Toxic Relationships
Termination of a relationship. A “discard” in the context of a relationship breakup refers to a sudden, abrupt, and often unexplained ending, where one partner is abruptly cut off with little to no communication or closure. It’s characterized by a...
by Loren Keeling | May 12, 2025 | Toxic Relationships
Coercive Control I have chosen two videos in this article that cover “Coercive Control”. Both are TEDx talks. What is coercive control? Domestic abuse isn’t always physical. Coercive control is an act or a pattern of acts of assault, threats, humiliation,...
by Loren Keeling | Apr 8, 2025 | Toxic Relationships
Cheating once may be called a mistake, but what drives someone to cheat repeatedly? Introduction.As a woman who saw the devastation of a broken family home as a child, I can tell you that the impact of infidelity goes further than the spouse who discovers the affair....
by Loren Keeling | Mar 12, 2025 | Toxic Relationships
Life-altering changes. The effects of betrayal can include shock, loss and grief, morbid preoccupation, damaged self-esteem, self-doubting, and anger. Not infrequently, they produce life-altering changes. No matter how strong we are, betrayal hurts; if not checked,...
