2 minute Patrick Doyle Clip on Emotional Abuse
This is a great little clip to send to someone who believes your very convincing emotionally abusive partner. When the helper tells you to “love them more” as the solution, it only emboldens the abusive partner. Here’s why:
If you want to share this short clip with a “people helper” via email, but you don’t want to link them directly to this blog, here’s a link that leads straight to the clip: http://www.youtube.com/v/cMnaexahcLo?version=3&start=338&end=446&autoplay=0&hl=en_US&rel=0
You can watch the entire video HERE.
That is good point about the ‘patriarchy movement.’ The issue is not that women refuse abortion or vote conservative if they vote at all, the issue is does this type of religious practice cause the spouse to admit wrong; to overcome his own ‘old adam’ desires to harm others.
Good marriage isn’t found on number of children(though I do believe we should ‘choose life’) it is found on overcoming sin as a couple. They may have no children(perhaps there is disorder) or they may have twenty children.
I appreciate this series… It is timely for a good friend.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I am still struggling to work out whether or not my husband fits into this category of never being able to admit he is wrong. But sadly I see very well that another significant person in my life does — my boss. And I’ve seen this happen with very tragic consequences and know that it is not just about me. I have seen a very wise person (who happens to be a woman so maybe that is the problem though I have seen him respond the same way with men) give valid and clear reasons as to why something that he did was wrong and hurt other people terribly and that an apology was in order and he just absolutely refused to accept it. When I heard this it was like something broke a bit inside me — the realization that there doesn’t seem to be any hope that the working environment can ever improve. Thankfully it is obvious that many people, basically everyone who works for him, recognize the same problem, so I know it’s not just me. But it is so sad that there seems to be no hope for this person. I am praying that my husband does not fall into the same category. And that neither do I!