Your Partner Makes You Feel Bad: What Can You Do?

  “My partner makes me feel really bad/completely useless“. Many people in relationships experience these kinds of feelings. In fact, at any given moment, a relationship can suddenly turn into one characterized by criticism, humiliation, or even mistreatment. The most striking thing about these situations is that, as a rule, we’re far more tolerant of emotional abuse than we think. After all, undervaluing, ridiculing, or insulting leaves no physical scars and we often tend to give in, telling ourselves they’ve just had a bad day or we need to make an effort to treat them better. However, this doesn’t work…