Update from Barb Roberts, July, 2025. I no longer agree with the views expressed by the Guest poster below. The reason I'm not deleting her blog post is that if I deleted the post, the comments would also be scrubbed. I don't believe in de-voicing any victim of abuse. Patrick Carnes is DANGEROUS. I'll soon… Continue reading Chains that bind us to betrayal and the key to being set free
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Abuse is FORCE Used to Control Others
In his great book Physical Abusers and Sexual Offenders [Affiliate link], Scott Johnson makes a wonderfully insightful statement. Read it and think about it carefully. Psychological force and psychological abuse truly are similar phenomenon and I will use the terms interchangeably throughout the book. Force technically is abuse, and it seems needless to make a distinction… Continue reading Abuse is FORCE Used to Control Others
