I may have mentioned before that it took me three years to leave my abuser. I tried to leave once but had little resources, no support and four small children, including a newborn. I was convinced to come back out of sheer necessity. For the next three years, I would claw my way out of… Continue reading The Back and Forth-ness of Leaving An Abuser
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Dealing with an overactive conscience
One of our readers, Hislovejoy, sent us this request: I really appreciate Dr. George Simon’s work (and wish the friends my ex has turned against me would read and understand it all). I love his distinction between “neurotics” and a character-disordered controller. I have come to see that I have a VERY overactive conscience which… Continue reading Dealing with an overactive conscience
