Emotional/Psychological abuse behaviour – Mother
- making the child/teen feel responsible for the mother’s feelings
- threatening them in general
- threatening them specifically with rejection or abandonment
- threatening them with vague, unstated consequences
- using force upon them
- invalidating their feelings
- laying undeserved guilt upon them
- placing undeserved guilt on them
- placing undeserved blame on them
- dominating the conversations
- refusing to apologize
- always needing to have the last word
- judging or rejecting their friends
- sending them to their rooms for crying
- locking them out of the house
- using punishments and rewards to manipulate and control them
- invading their privacy
- underestimating them
- failing to show trust in them
- criticizing them
- giving them the silent treatment
- failing to give them real explanations
- giving non-explanations such as “because it is wrong” or “because it is inappropriate” or “because it is a sin”
Taken from: http://eqi.org/eam1.htm
- making the child/teen feel responsible for the mother’s feelings
- threatening them in general
- threatening them specifically with rejection or abandonment
- threatening them with vague, unstated consequences
- using force upon them
- invalidating their feelings
- laying undeserved guilt upon them
- placing undeserved guilt on them
- placing undeserved blame on them
- dominating the conversations
- refusing to apologize
- always needing to have the last word
- judging or rejecting their friends
- sending them to their rooms for crying
- locking them out of the house
- using punishments and rewards to manipulate and control them
- invading their privacy
- underestimating them
- failing to show trust in them
- criticizing them
- giving them the silent treatment
- failing to give them real explanations
- giving non-explanations such as “because it is wrong” or “because it is inappropriate” or “because it is a sin”
Taken from: http://eqi.org/eam1.htm