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6.1 WHY DEAL WITH VERBAL ABUSE OVER OTHER KINDS OF ABUSE?

While verbal abuse is very destructive, it is also one form of abuse that can be dealt even by people who have not seen a therapist. The numerous articles on the Internet will point the honest and willing person in the right direction. You will find a complete outline of dealing with verbal abuse here at the AbusiveLove.com site as well.

Verbal abuse can be attacked and worked on because the abuse is accessible; that is the words and the tone of voice are things that can be discussed and changed. Pure emotional abuse is harder to identify and therefore hard to pinpoint and cure. In addition physical abuse is almost always proceeded by verbal abuse, so dealing with verbal abuse may prevent physical abuse.

If you can make headway with preventing and curing verbal abuse, then you have gone a long way to healing your relationship. This healingwill probably extend to emotional and physical abuse, if they are also present. So verbal abuse and changing the way words are used in your relationship can become the doorway, the entry into solving a number of abusive patterns in your life.

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