IN A MANIPULATIVE, DECEPTIVE FAMILY SYSTEM This type of daughter does not behave out of love, morality, or independence.She behaves out of conditioning, control, fear, and psychological fusion with the manipulative parent. Her loyalty is not chosen.It is shaped. Here is the research-based breakdown. 1. Enmeshed Child: She Becomes the Father’s Emotional Extension In dysfunctional families,… Read More PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE OF THE DAUGHTER
“How It Feels to Be a Sociopath” (a composite, non-sensationalised perspective based on self-descriptions by real people with ASPD traits) “It’s not that I don’t feel.It’s that my feelings don’t guide me the way they guide you.” People with sociopathic traits often describe: 1. A baseline of emotional quiet Not emptiness—more like stillness. Where others… Read More A View From the Inside:
In the early 1970s, domestic violence was not recognised by law or society as a crime. It was considered a “private matter.” Women like Jenny had nowhere to go. Police often refused to intervene, and families urged women to “go back home.” But in 1971, one woman — Erin Pizzey — decided that silence was no longer… Read More The Birth of Refuge: How One House Changed Everything
When a woman is single, divorced, attractive, and successful, she can sometimes become a lightning rod for jealousy and suspicion. Instead of being celebrated for her resilience or admired for her strength, she may be judged, ostracized, or treated as a “threat.” This is both a psychological and a neuroscientific phenomenon — tied to insecurity, competition, and… Read More When Jealousy Rears Its Ugly Head:
Returning to the themes of her classic The Drama of the Gifted Child, the famed psychoanalyst examines the consequences of cruelty to children and offers ways we can heal our early psychic wounds. . More than twenty years ago, a little-known Swiss psychoanalyst wrote a book that changed the way many people viewed themselves and… Read More The Truth Will Set You Free
Call me old-fashioned (or just traumatically wise), but whatever happened to the art of courting? You know, that slow-burn dance of romance where someone actually calls you, makes plans in advance (gasp), and asks how your day was without following it up with “wyd at 2am?” 😬 Nowadays, the only people who seem to know how to… Read More ✨Whatever Happened to Good Old-Fashioned Courtship?✨
For as long as I can remember, it’s been a bit of a running joke in my circle—if Linda wanted something, she had to do it herself.If Linda needed something, she had to pay for it herself.And if she dared to ask for help, well… she usually got a sigh, a shrug, or a vague promise followed… Read More “The Price of a 32-Year Apology”Or: The Time He Tried to Win Me Back With Sentiment—Until the Money Stopped Flowing
✍️ By Linda C J Turner Therapy | Healing After Abuse Series One of the most painful truths I’ve had to accept in my healing journey is this:The abuse I endured wasn’t just emotional volatility. It was premeditated. Planned. Strategic. What I once dismissed as confusion or misunderstanding now looks painfully clear in hindsight.This wasn’t… Read More 🔥 When Abuse Is Premeditated: Not Chaos, But Calculation
“A Horror Story No More: When Truth Meets the Next Generation” When I finally handed over the 15-page testimony of my life — years of manipulation, control, and quiet suffering — I wasn’t sure what to expect. I had written it for myself, yes, but also as a declaration that the silence was over. Still,… Read More The Spreadsheet – financial abuse
“A Horror Story No More: When Truth Meets the Next Generation” When I finally handed over the 15-page testimony of my life — the years of control, pain, and quiet endurance — I wasn’t sure how it would be received. Not by the world, but by someone whose opinion means the world to me: my… Read More “A Horror Story No More: When Truth Meets the Next Generation”
