Love is a complex and multifaceted emotion that encompasses a range of feelings, attitudes, and behaviors. It can be experienced in various forms, including romantic love, familial love, platonic love, and self-love. Here are some key aspects of love:
When You’re Wanting More Than They’re Giving Before you internalize their distance or shrink your needs, pause and ask: ❓ Are my needs being heard, even if they’re not always met? Love doesn’t mean constant closeness — but you should feel listened to.If you’re expressing a need and it keeps getting brushed aside… that’s not care. That’s… Read More 💛 Check In With Yourself…
When One Person Wants to Spend More Time Together Than the Other In the glow of something new, it’s natural to want to be with someone.To see them more.To feel connected.To share the little things and the big things.To be part of each other’s day — even in the smallest ways. But what happens when you want… Read More 💛 What’s Healthy in a New Relationship?
When Manipulation Dresses Up as Concern — And Never Stops From the very beginning, this person has been there — not to help, not to support, but to control, confuse, and stir the pot. 🔹 She pushed boundaries.🔹 She interfered in conversations that weren’t hers to enter.🔹 She sent mixed messages, carefully calculated to create chaos.🔹… Read More 🧠 Not the Person You Think They Are -When Manipulation Dresses Up as Concern
Do They Want Him to Go to Prison? At some point, you have to stop and ask yourself:Why do they keep pushing?Why do they keep breaking the law, again and again—knowing full well what the consequences are? It’s almost as if they want him to go to prison.And that’s when things get really disturbing. Because if someone is the subject… Read More 🧩 Not the Person You Think They Are – Do They Want Him to Go to Prison?
When They Can’t Let Go — and Won’t Leave You Alone There comes a point when it’s no longer just “keeping tabs” or “being curious.”It’s stalking.It’s invasive.It’s toxic. And it needs to stop. Despite clear boundaries, a restraining order, and multiple warnings, certain people just can’t seem to get on with their own lives. Instead, they sit… Read More 🔒 Not the Person You Think They Are – When They Can’t Let Go
Twelve photographs of him playing padel – fit and healthy, mid-match. A hospital report from 4th November showing he’s completely clear. No terminal illness. No chronic condition. No impending doom. This is the same man who, under oath in court, portrayed himself as a weak, dying man in March this year. A victim of life.… Read More 🎭 Not the Person You Think They Are – When Illness Becomes a Manipulation Tool 🎭
“He threw me a few breadcrumbs occasionally. No presents between Christmas and my birthday – which, unfortunately for me, fell on the same day. The odd bag of sweets, maybe a bottle of wine. But if I ever asked for more… I was called ‘spoilt.’” This wasn’t generosity.It was breadcrumbing – a subtle but powerful form of… Read More ✨ Not the Person You Think They Are – The Psychology of Breadcrumbing in Emotional Abuse ✨
In just eight months of freedom, I’ve lived more joy, laughter, connection, and genuine presence than in over 32 years of a relationship that quietly, systematically drained the life out of me. I didn’t ask for diamonds. I wasn’t expecting five-star holidays or lavish surprises. All I wanted were the simple, meaningful moments that make life feel… Read More ✨ More Life in 8 Months Than in 32 Years: The Psychology of Joy After Emotional Abuse
When my son came to visit me for the first time in 12 years, it should have been a moment of joy. Instead, it became the beginning of a heartbreaking ultimatum. Twelve years apart from your child is more than just lost time—it’s lost birthdays, missed milestones, a silence that cuts deep. When my son… Read More 🎭 Not the Person You Think They Are
✨ A vow born of healing, wisdom, and unbreakable love ✨ There comes a moment in every survivor’s journey when clarity arrives—not as a whisper, but as a roar. For me, that moment came when I finally saw, with wide-open eyes and a steady heart, how much had been lost to manipulation and control… how many precious… Read More Never Again Will I Let a Man Come Between Me and My Children or Grandchildren
Linda C J Turner | Trauma Therapist & Emotional Healing Specialist 