more real talk…
Anyone who isn’t living under a rock knows the holiday season is the most stressful time of the year.
As a survivor of domestic violence and someone who suffered an extreme escalation of abuse during Christmas and New Years, I wanted to devote a post to something near and dear to my heart: Gaslighting.
The holiday season can unearth some of the most insidious displays of mental and emotional abuse due to the heighten awareness of holiday perfectionism, or the ideal that the holiday season must be a perfectly executed event to show how “functional and loving” you are as a couple. Decades ago, psychologists and relationship counselors down-played this tactic as passive-aggression. Now that domestic violence and abuse has seen a new wave crash into the public’s consciousness, we shouldn’t second guess a gaslighter’s tactics and intentions.
As a disclaimer, I support women AND men removing themselves from toxic…
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Anniwithani 
Thanks for the reblog!!!
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yw 🙂 thank you so much for sharing it, you can’t imagine how real it is to me
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Stay strong 🙂
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This is great truth….and you don’t recognize it until you’ve lived it…*sigh… Very easy to fall victim to…especially for the most loving, positive, and kind hearted souls. I had never even heard the term “gaslighting”, until months after the escape. God bless you💜
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