Tag: emotional misuse

Emotional Misuse, 5

Responsibility. Emotional misuse happens when there is a pattern of offloading responsibility. It can't always be something or someone else, sometimes it's you. Avoiding responsibility is avoiding yourself. Choosing to deflect responsibility misuses the space where you form intimacy and trust in your relationships. Journal Prompts: I avoid... I avoid... I avoid... I avoid... I avoid...

Emotional Misuse, 4

Gaslighting. Gaslighting takes advantage of intimate influence. When you intend to leave someone questioning themselves and their experience, it's gaslighting. It's manipulative, there is an agenda, there is low tolerance for someone to express themselves authentically. Gaslighting is not respectfully challenging and having a conversation about diverse perspectives. Gaslighting challenges the root of a person and gnaws at their self-trust. Gaslighting harms by promoting a narrative of self-doubt. Healthy relationships claim territory in respecting the perspectives of people they love. Journal Prompts: I try to influence... It's difficult for me to tolerate...

Emotional Misuse, 3

Relationships bring capacity to misuse the power of influence. Your intolerance of organic existing and craving for control is misuse. Polluting the natural state of the human in front of you, for your agenda, is stealing from them. Rerouting someone's natural emotional output, so you are more comfortable, is misusing your power. You step across the line when you mold and direct emotional traffic. Journal prompt: I have trouble tolerating...