Autoimmune Disorders: your feelings are dismissed, your experiences minimized. You feel unheard and unseen.

Weightloss: you find yourself doing things you don’t agree with or face emotional blackmail.

Recovery from major illness: somehow it’s always your fault.

Gaslighting: you are told an alternate version of events and begin to question your recall and even your sanity.

Love Bombing and Devaluation: you go through cycles where you’re treated you like a king or queen, then next week you’re garbage.

Stonewalling: he or she is silent for days, sometimes weeks and won’t speak to you.

Withholding affection: sex or intimacy is used as a weapon and withheld to punish you.

Social isolation: over time you find yourself with less and less friends as she/he discourages or forbids your friendships.

Playing the victim: every argument ends with her/him being the victim and portraying themself as the one who was wronged.

Exploitation and shaming: your insecurities around your body, appearance, career or age are used against you.