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Originally Posted by Rose76
Who do you have to "prove" anything to? It almost sounds like you wish there were a way you could get the law on him for emotional abuse.
It's not against the law for adults to be mean to other adults or to play cruel head games. I mean . . . there are laws against things like slander and libel. Mental cruelty did used to be a basis on which to sue for divorce. But, basically, if you're in a relationship with someone who treats you badly, then the remedy is to get out of the relationship. Will you be left with some emotional damage even after getting out? Possibly so. But it's basically something you have to chalk up as a learning experience.
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If it were possible to prove emotional abuse should it not be prosecuted the same as physical abuse? I feel you are implying that emotional abuse can not be considered as bad a physical abuse.
However, I have no interest in punishing him.
I'm afraid I went off on a rather bitter and disillusioned tangent about a society where how you treat people doesn't matter.
Where a parent can tell a child everyday of their life that they are worthless and face no consequences.
Where someone can make someone else's life so miserable that they want to die but then this society blames the victim for being weak or unintelligent.
Where emotions are a liability to be exploited.
NPD and ASPD are not disorders- they are the next rung on the evolutionary ladder.