christmas

It's really hard to explain emotional and verbal abuse, especially to someone who's never gone through it. It's even worse when it's different circumstances that are hard to grasp, like the difference between emotional abuse from a parent versus emotional abuse from a boy or girl friend or even husband. Sometimes, these abusive people in our lives, we're stuck with them until the bitter end whether we want to be or not. Sometimes these people ruin events for us, birthdays, certain locations, holidays, or more. Please don't make it worse for them by making them feel bad for disliking certain things because of the abuser, or constantly asking "why don't you like this or that" when they clearly don't want to answer, etc. If someone was so terrible to them in the past that it entirely ruined something so important as a holiday or something, you'd think that they'd leave it alone or think a little harder before making them feel like shit for disliking it.