My partner constantly berates me, calls me names like witch, blames me for his mistakes, flips things around to make it look like my fault as well as telling me to “be a woman” or “you are acting like a child”. Is this verbal abuse?
Yes it can be considered verbal abuse. However if you are a witch, do need to grow up and are the root cause of all of his troubles, then you kind of have it coming, don’t cha? So it would not be “verbal abuse” it would be “truth”. For the sake of argument I will pick “your side” and say that yes in context and assuming that you are right, that he is using verbal abuse. To a point. Many people do not know how to verbalize their feelings. It would be lovely and grand if we all could sit down and say “I feel ________ when _________ takes place.” filling in the blanks with useful words. However many of us do not have this basic skill TAUGHT to us (it is a learned skill, best taught by our parents while we are young and forming an understanding of emotions and how situations affect how we feel). Many of us fall to using semi-slanderous verbiage to address how we feel at any given time. Words convey emotions or attempt to define how we feel. What exactly is a “witch” in his world? What qual
