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The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond | 
 enlarge | Author: Patricia Evans
Publisher: Adams Media
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  219 reviews
Sales Rank: 1705
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2 Exp Sub
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 222
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.3
ISBN: 1558505822
Dewey Decimal Number: 153.6
UPC: 045079005822
EAN: 9781558505827
ASIN: 1558505822
Publication Date: February 1, 2003
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Are you now, or have you ever been, in relationships with family, friends, or mates who have been verbally abusive? Is your happiness with someone you love continually threatened by interactions that continually undermine your self-esteem? Do you feel trapped in a relationship that keeps decaying in a downward spiral of overt or passive-aggressive abuse? If so, this book could be your life raft, either carrying you toward repair of the existing relationship or the effects of past relationships or offering liberation from your current confusion. Its practical approach can help clear your head and possibly change your life. The only criticism that I and other readers have is that the author assumes verbal abuse is almost always directed by males toward females, which, in my experience and that of others I know, is not necessarily the case. Highly Recommended.
Book Description
If you or someone you know answers "yes" to one or more of the following questions, this book is required reading: Does your partner seem irritated or angry at you several times a week?
Does he deny being angry when he clearly is?
Do your attempts to discuss feelings of pain or emotional distress leave you with the feeling that the issue has not been resolved?
Do you frequently feel perplexed and frustrated by his responses, as though you were each speaking a different language? Almost everyone has heard of or knows someone who is part of a verbally abusive relationship-if they're not involved in one themselves. In The Verbally Abusive Relationship, you'll find validation and understanding-it's "not all in your head"-and encouragement for your efforts to change the situation. In this expanded second edition, author Patricia Evans explores the damaging effects of verbal abuse on children and the family, and offers valuable insight and recommendations to therapists, as well as those who seek therapeutic support.
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 This book saved my soul August 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Verbal abuse kills your soul one word at a time. This book helped me realize that no amount of explaining on my part would ever get through to my husband how his words damaged me and others. After 20 years, it hit me that he will never change. Please realize that verbal abusers can be women as well as men (the author doesn't emphasize this enough). All in all, this is the most helpful book I have ever read. It saved my life and my soul.Too Good for Her Own Good: Searching for Self and Intimacy in Important Relationships
Instrumental in My Recovery May 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was instrumental in my recovery during and after divorce. It was given to me by a coworker who had read it and found it most helpful. I had no idea that verbal abuse was this prevalant in our society. The book really helped me gain insight into my ex husband and consistently provided me with reassurance that I made the right decision to leave the relationship. Please consider purchasing The Verbally Abusive Relationship for yourself or for someone you love. I am buying a third copy to give to a coworker whose sister is just emerging from a toxic relationship. This book was the key that opened the door to my new life.
 Life-changing book May 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was like reading a chapter out of my life. When I read the checklist on behaviors, and could check 7 or 8 things off, I knew I had to act to change my life. I would read a passage and say, "Oh my God, that is me." I felt the worst when I read about what living in a verbally abusive relationship does to my children. I wish I could have started the response techniques that were written, but after 25 years, I figured it was too late to start. He has moved out, and I am beginning to find peace in my own home. I don't know what the future holds, but I will never be treated like that again!
Doesn't address alcoholism April 1, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book is good for what it's worth, but it doesn't address alcoholism at all. The first thing a partner of a verbal abuser should consider is whether there is alcoholism involved. Then it's a whole other issue!
Verbal Abuse and Alcoholism February 21, 2008
I was called every name in the book by my alcoholic husband. He even criticized me because I peeled a cucumber "wrong"!! I have a Masters Degree in my field. He would tell me things that were in my OWN field. As Toby Rice Drews says in her book, "Getting Them Sober" ----- Getting Them Sober: You Can Help! (Getting Them Sober)"if Florence Nightingale was married to an alcoholic, he would have her convinced that she was a terrible nurse." Many of our verbal abusers have drinking problems and we don't often even recognize that it's alcoholism ---- but verbal abuse and alcoholism often go hand in hand. (According to the National Institute of Health, half of all American families have active alcoholism.) After years of being verbally abused and nitpiked to death---I began to doubt that I could do the most ordinary mundane tasks. Then I found the book, "Getting Them Sober" --- it gave me hundreds of practical ways to protect myself against abuse of all kinds. (No wonder 'dear Abby' endorsed the book, and wrote "this book should be read by everyone").
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