Emotional Abuse Part III

Verbal abuse is a form of Emotional abuse.This includes yelling, name-calling, belittling, berating, criticizing, and threats. Constant blaming, sarcasm, humiliation, and pointing out flaws in someone or making fun of someone is also emotionally abusive. To do this over and over again to someone will diminish their sense of self and self-value.
Another form of emotional abuse is when you place overwhelming demands and expectations on another person. Like wanting constant attention, never accepting the amount of time someone gives you, and requiring that someone meets all of your needs and forgets about thier own.
Sometimes I see couples where one person will order a person to do or not to do something. This is emotionally abusive. Judging your partner, telling what they need to do or not do, invalidating their feelings and decisions, taking a one-up position, or taking that "parent" role is emotionally abusive. It says to the other person that they are not ok and not good enough.
What I see a lot of times is when a couple is in an emotionally abusive relationship and one person will totally lose their sense of self. They will not know what they want, what they think, what they feel. They will not even know what is real sometimes. What ends up happening is their boundaries have become so obsolete, they have lost themselves. Another term for this is co-dependent. So to end these cycles of abuse, the one receiving the emotional abuse will need to begin rebuilding their boundaries, and thus their sense of self.