Verbal Abuse in Relationships
August 13, 2009
It is said that words once spoken can never be taken back. It takes years to build a relationship and just few words can break it or leave everlasting cracks and fissures in it.
Verbal abuse refers to certain comments or degrading or harsh words that can lead to a sense of betrayal, hurt and depression in a person at whom the words were directed.
Verbal abuse does not lead to any physical injury. However, it leads to emotional or psychological scars.
Verbal abuse is as serious an offence in a relationship as is physical abuse. In fact, verbal abuse can be seen as more damaging than physical abuse because unlike the physical scars that get healed with time, emotional scars caused by verbal abuse last for a lifetime and can have further repercussions.
They can shatter the self image and confidence of the victim and make him feel worthless.
Verbal abuse not only leads to emotional upheavals and scars, it also makes you vulnerable to physical illness over a period of time.
When a person suffers from ongoing abuse, he lives in a condition of chronic stress which in turn adversely affects the immune system and makes the person vulnerable to illnesses.
If you are verbally abused in a relationship, you must take action. Don’t be a passive victim. Instead, you should ask your abuser to stop his abusive behavior and you should also take help of your friends and relatives.
Usually, in marital relationships, men consider it as their right to dominate women and utter harsh words to them to keep them subordinated. However, as a woman, you need to revolt this behavior and let your abuser know that it is not his right to demean you through words.
You must try to put an end to verbal abuse in a relationship as the pain and trauma caused by it can be detrimental to your overall health- be it emotional or physical.
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Seems like someone is a little one-sided in this article. Women are not the only ones that suffer at the hands of a verbal abuser. Women have definately been given an outlet in which to turn for emotional help. Men, I think, tend to feel embarrassed that they are verbally abused. Surely we can all agree that verbal abuse is not sexist.
In the article it says “they can shatter the self image and confidence of the victim and make him feel worse”. and ” when a person suffers from ongoing abuse, he lives in a condition…….” So as one can see this is not a one sided article. Yet the author does mention that some men feel it is their right…. but that is stating a fact. I think the article feeds to both men and woman, and the point is that this type of abuse is and does happen. I do not belive the author was being sexist, as it happens on both sides of a relationship. Yes there are outlets for women to turn to for emotional help but they to suffer from embarrassement for letting themselves be abused so do not seek the help needed to change the relationship or get out of it. Women in verbally or physically abusive relationships are very strong women they just do not realize how stronge they are they think that they are weak for staying but the truth is weak women would never make it a week in an abusive relationship, these woman just need the tools to get out. Statistics show that there are a great deal more woman then men in abusive relationships that is a fact, yes there are some men and we don’t hear about it as often because they don’t talk about it. But that still doesn’t change the fact that men are more known to be the abuser. In my line of work I see it a lot and I can say that verbal abuse is sexist, on both sides!