Saturday, I sat down with a friend to talk about our different experiences in our former abusive marriages. "Chris" was married to an abusive woman for 25 years while I was married to an abusive man for 12 years. We both wanted to discover what similarities and/or differences there were between our respective marriages. This… Continue reading Differences Between an Abusive Wife and an Abusive Husband: Our Story
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Abuse and Empathy: How Abusers Flunk the Empathy Test
The very first book I bought and read when I began my quest to study abuse was Physical Abusers and Sexual Offenders [Affiliate link] by Scott Allen Johnson. It is not a Christian book. Johnson's thesis is that therapists and researchers have erred in not realizing that these two forms of abuse are very often linked… Continue reading Abuse and Empathy: How Abusers Flunk the Empathy Test
