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8 Relationship Problems You Can Face If You Had Toxic Parents

As children, we have certain obligations towards our parents. But what if our parents hang these obligations over our heads for their personal gain? Being parents doesn’t mean that they own our lives. Unloving toxic parents abuse their children emotionally, mentally and sometimes physically. They are delusional about their relationship with their child and use …

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True life account of a woman in an emotionally abusive relationship

I Didn’t Realise I Was in an Emotionally Abusive Relationship

I was in an unconventional marriage. My husband, whom I was in love with for three months, hijacked me from another wedding mandap and on February 14th, 1990, I became Mrs. Unnikrishnan. My folks were relieved that I was finally married – so were his family. I remember my ma-in-law, a wonderful woman, asking me …

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Kabir Singh is Wrong! I Slapped My Wife and I Regret It Every Single Moment

You can judge me as much as you want, but it happened one night when her temper went out of the roof, and all that my brain wanted to do was – shut her up, by any means. Her only fault – she did not want to feed the baby because her nipples were sore …

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Husband Abused Her When She Said She Wanted To Get Back To Work After A Break

How to get back to work after a career break for women.

My wife hits me

Question: My wife has a bad temper. Often our disagreements turn to angry fights where she raises her hand to me. Obviously, I don’t hit her back when she slaps me or kicks me, but this is really no way to behave. In anger, she will also say terrible things like, ‘why did I marry …

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healthy unhealthy and abusive relationships

Healthy Vs Unhealthy Vs Abusive Relationships – What’s The Difference?

Beware of these abusive behaviours if they are not one-off occurrences but recurring patterns. Know the difference between healthy, unhealthy and abusive relationships.

He would abuse and then apologise – I got trapped into this vicious cycle

(As told to Saurabh Paul) I fell in love with the image he showed me It all began with a crush in college: those furtive glances which suggest that two young people are fancying each other. Soon, familiarity grew, and not many days after, friends became a couple. I had a middle-class upbringing and he …

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Why Would She Stay In An Abusive Relationship?

why women stay in abusive relationships has to do with living in denial and not being able to acknowledge the reality of their situation.

Sexual Harassment Of Men And Its Types

Sexual abuse of men is common but are humiliated in society if they speak up about it. What are the various types in which men can face sexual harassment?

My husband passed away three years back, and I’ve never been happier

(As told to Priya Chaphekar) I had the expected arranged marriage The turbulence in my life began when I was in my final year in college. I hail from a small town near Pune where a girl is married off the minute she turns 20. The guy was working as an engineer in an MNC …

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