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Q: How can I help a friend realize that she is in abusive relation?
asked by: tryingtohelpafriendinneed on July 30th, 2009
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I understand that in a relationship, there is always a path filled with rocky road with bumps here and there. The problem that i have seen in my friends relationship with her boyfriend is that the fights that they are having is slowly grinding her away the very person that she is. I just don't know how to bring her the truth that its starting to eat away at the very person that I've gotten to know and love all my life.

Some of the ways I her being in a abusive relationship is that :
1. She feels helpless and hopeless whenever he begins to speak to her, even if that is by word or texting. (i havne't had one outing with her in which he hasn't called or text her about something and not go into a depressed state)
2. She feel like you are always walking on eggshells and afraid of angering her partner.
3. Her partner humiliates her. (has made vulgur statements that they would have sex any chance possible, without really allowing her the choice of having it)
4. Her partner makes fun of her regularly (always tells her what she does wrong or is wrong with her)
5 Her partner is extremely jealous. (Any guy that she hangs out has to be specially seen / has to know him)
6. Her partner doesn't allow her to see friends or family members (I even have trouble seeing her due to him Sad )

I want to do something but i've realized that she doesn't realize that she is in such a relationship and that it seems to her that everything is going perfect.

I'm truly scared when I heard from her that he had proposed to her and that she said yes (And to make things better, he is 17 and she is 19). They haven't announced it to their parents but she has informed me that they will at the end of the summer, which I know will destroy her relationship with her family.

Please, if anyone has advice, i would truly appreciate it. I just want to make her realize without destroying our own relationship.
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tareda
replied on August 6th, 2009
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i read this the other day and HONESTLY just realized I'm in one of these myself. You begin to make excuses for a partners behaviors and dont even realize your doing so. it starts off small but it is what it is...emotional abuse and it never goes away.
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ServiceU
replied on August 10th, 2009
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you can be her friend and give her good advice, but she has to live her own live and make her own mistakes.
you can tell her that a good man will treat their women like gold, adore her and not say anything hurtful, possessive, or controlling. the little things she is dealing with now will get worse.
love is blind and she may have to make her own mistakes.
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ServiceU
replied on October 27th, 2009
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she realizes how he treats her, she probably protects him because she loves him.
continue to be the good friend that you are and continue to tell her that it's not right to be in such relationship.
i was in a mentally abusive relationship and i was so much in love, when people tried to break us up, i cling closer to him. it took a while for me to realize things, but i had a good friend that supported me and was always in my ear.
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