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The Top 10 Signs Your Narcissistic Spouse is Gaslighting You! (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us again for this continuing discussion about gaslighting. We’ve been talking about how to tell if your narcissistic spouse is using this particular kind of emotional abuse to control and manipulate you. It’s what narcissists do. In the previous article we looked at the first five signs of gaslighting,…
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The Top 10 Signs Your Narcissistic Spouse is Gaslighting You! (Pt 1)
You may not be sure what gaslighting is, but that doesn’t mean you’re not a victim of this insidious form of emotional and psychological abuse. Narcissists use gaslighting regularly as a way to control and undermine their partners, keeping them unbalanced, unsure of themselves, and struggling to tell reality from fiction. Because a victim who’s…
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Four Things Alienated Parents Should NEVER do to Get Their Kids Back! (Pt 2)
Hi there and welcome back. We’ve been talking about a very hard topic for divorcing parents to deal with – specifically, what not to do when your toxic ex is working to alienate you from your children. In the previous article we discussed why it’s so important to be strategic and careful in responding to…
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Four Things Alienated Parents Should NEVER do to Get Their Kids Back! (Pt 1)
If you’re involved in a messy divorce, and your about-to-be-ex is working hard to poison your kids against you, then you already know you’re a victim of parental alienation. It’s a terrible feeling, watching your children slip away emotionally, their little hearts slowly hardening against you. We can’t imagine a more devastating experience for a…
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Are You Trying to Decide Whether to Save Your Marriage, or Get Divorced?
Making the decision to get divorced is a major life event. It can take some people years to come to a place where they’re ready to end their marriages, even if those relationships have been unhappy for a long time. But knowing you want out doesn’t necessarily make the process any easier. Many people deal…
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The Realities of Divorcing a Narcissist: Meanness and Petty Cruelties
We’ve spent a lot of time over the last few years analyzing, lamenting about and discussing the complex subject of divorce and narcissism. Why? Because it’s a major issue that a frightening number of spouses have had to deal with personally during their marriages and divorces in recent years. In representing people from all over…
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Why Can’t Anyone Else See That my Spouse is an Abusive Narcissist?
There’s hardly a single person we meet, who’s married to a narcissist, that doesn’t end up asking this question at some point or another. After all, it’s hard not to wonder why you seem to be the only person who can see the truth about your abusive marriage. But that’s the point – narcissists are…
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Representing Yourself in Your Divorce is Probably Going To Be Very Expensive!
We’ve talked about this before – why representing yourself in court is almost always a pretty terrible idea. But like everything in life, if it’s important it’s worth revisiting. And this is definitely important. Because what you do and say in court during divorce proceedings doesn’t just impact your life now and in the immediate…
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Rules to Help Your Divorce go More Smoothly (Pt 2)
Hey there and welcome back to our chat about how to keep your divorce moving smoothly with a few basic rules. As we pointed out in the previous article, divorces are going to be time consuming and stressful pretty much from the get-go. So anything you can do to make the process easier on you…
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Rules to Help Your Divorce go More Smoothly (Pt 1)
Just about anything in life comes with some kind of rules in order to keep it from falling into total chaos. Schools have rules to keep kids safe and focused on their work. Relationships (at least, healthy ones) have rules in order to protect people from unnecessary emotional pain. And communities have rules governing people’s…