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What are some of the most common misconceptions people have about emotional abuse?

That it’s obvious. That you’d know. That a smart woman wouldn’t stay. The misconception that does the most damage is the idea that if it were really abuse, leaving would feel straightforward. It doesn’t. It feels like grief. It feels like failure. It feels like losing someone you loved, because you did. The relationship was real. The good moments were real. That’s not confusion that’s the cycle working exactly the way it’s designed to work.