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Love and Abuse

Paul Colaianni

Helping you identify toxic communication, emotional abuse, manipulation and other forms of bad behavior in relationships. Full of tips and advice for your friendships, family, love life and marriage. Revealing covert abusive communication that takes away your power. Learn to pinpoint the specific behaviors of toxic, narcissistic and verbally abusive people before you are dragged in to their game so deep you come out a shell of your former self. Love and Abuse is the official podcast of The M.E.A.N. Workbook on emotional abuse and manipulation at loveandabuse.com.

Episodes

If you've tried everything to stop the hurtful behavior, what's next?

Nov 21 2020 • 3072 MIN

You've tried talking with them, expressing your hurt or unhappiness, but they still don't seem to want to change their behavior. If you've done what you can, what is the next step? Emotionally abus...

Sometimes things need to be perfectly lined up to make the big decisions about the relationship

Nov 4 2020 • 3098 MIN

There's a point of either intoleration or breakdown that you sometimes have to reach in order to finally make a decision that you need to make about a toxic relationship. When that moment comes, it...

Understanding the addict in the manipulative relationship

Oct 19 2020 • 2072 MIN

Dealing with a manipulative and controlling relationship is bad enough, but what happens when the person doing the bad behavior is also dealing with addiction? What if the addiction is the reason f...

Should you try harder to please the emotionally abusive person?

Sep 30 2020 • 1561 MIN

One of the constants I've seen over and over again in emotionally abusive relationships is when the victim tries harder to please an unpleasable person. No matter what they do or how hard they try,...

How the emotional abuser takes your empowerment tools away from you

Sep 10 2020 • 986 MIN

What is one of the most effective forms of emotional abuse? When the abusive person takes everything that empowers you away from you. All your tools and resources become their tools to use you and ...

Glossing over the first detail in an argument will make it fall apart fast

Sep 4 2020 • 2861 MIN

The first important point in a growing argument might be the most important one that gets glossed over. When that happens, the person trying to express what they're feeling or experiencing might fe...