Rebuilding Self-Trust After Emotional Abuse
One of the hardest parts of healing from emotional abuse isn’t just leaving.
It’s learning how to trust yourself again after years of being told—directly or indirectly—that you can’t.
What Is Silent Gaslighting? And Why It’s So Hard to Name
I didn’t know what to call it at first.
There were no screaming matches. No ultimatums. Just a long stretch of confusion and loneliness inside my own home.
He never yelled—until the very end.
He didn’t hit me.
He didn’t even argue most of the time.
He just… said nothing.