by Loren Keeling | Jan 30, 2023 | Toxic Relationships
Any domestic abuse that occurs in a relationship is about power and control. Abusers terrorize and intimidate their targets they also confuse and devalue you as a person. They use the relationship for their own purpose. Â Don’t make excuses for their...
by Loren Keeling | Jan 9, 2023 | Toxic Relationships
Domestic abuse is a serious and all too common problem that affects millions of individuals and families around the world. It can take many forms, including physical, sexual, emotional, and financial abuse, and can leave victims feeling isolated, afraid, and with...
by Loren Keeling | Dec 27, 2022 | Toxic Relationships
QUOTE“Wondering why all the narcissistic abuse survivors around you are so angry all the time? It’s because they’re healing and beginning to understand some brutal truths about who they are, who they could have been, and what it will take to get them to a...
by Loren Keeling | Dec 5, 2022 | Toxic Relationships
Families You do not choose your family, families are created. So my adult daughter tells her Aunt. “She is no Mother to me”. (AKA Me) Well, I guess everyone has an opinion. Then her Aunt says, “I’m SELFISH”. Well, I guess that’s another...
by Loren Keeling | Nov 29, 2022 | Toxic Relationships
This is the short story I published as a video, which refers to a period in 2018 during the relationship. @LifeChangePlans The 27th of August 2021 was the first anniversary of the abrupt termination of my 11-year relationship with a man that I attracted into my life...
by Loren Keeling | Nov 21, 2022 | Toxic Relationships
I have experienced what I term three Ds in relationship endings 1. Divorce 2. Death of my partner 3. Discard as in the abrupt termination of the relationship by the other person. So today I want to talk about these three D’s relationship endings. Divorce I had...
by Loren Keeling | Nov 14, 2022 | Toxic Relationships
Betrayal, a form of emotional abuse, can cause PTSD. Symptoms such as flashbacks, nightmares & impaired sleeping, depression, anxiety, brain fog, distrust, dissociation, are common. Betrayed partners often feel as if their reality has been shaken to its core.—...
by Loren Keeling | Nov 12, 2022 | Toxic Relationships
Open letter to the Ex. You want to win at all costs. Dear Ex But those costs are very high, not just monetary, but the cost of time, energy, and emotional welfare. Stress is a known precursor to illness and that can be minor ailments to major forms of...
by Loren Keeling | Oct 12, 2022 | Toxic Relationships
Why do women stay in a marriage or relationship that is toxic or abusive? They love their partner. They make excuses, he’s in pain, he’s frustrated, he’s got a lot of stress, his diabetic illness and low blood sugar cause him to say those hurtful things. They...
by Loren Keeling | Sep 24, 2022 | Toxic Relationships
Today is exactly two years from the date that a former partner walked away from the relationship.I wrote my story and self-published my book in June 2022.”Post Separation Abuse. Betrayal & Abandonment, What Type Of Man?” Readers will discover 2...
by Loren Keeling | Aug 29, 2022 | Toxic Relationships
A memory from January 2018. My partner had just confessed his infidelity and betrayal on December 27th. He was apparently entitled to carry on an affair with another woman he had started seeing again in the UK. He called her “his Wednesday girl” because...
by Loren Keeling | Aug 22, 2022 | Toxic Relationships
People do not understand #coercivecontrol it is power and control, manipulation and mind games, emotional and psychological abuse. It is what I term hidden emotional abuse. Often the victim does not realise they have been in an emotionally abusive marriage or...
