Parents are supposed to be safe havens for children, and not the source of their trauma. Here's how one man realized his excessive overexplaining was due to his mother gaslighting him as a child.
Some people diagnosed with bipolar disorder have a tendency to be violent. But when you mix that with the signs of a sociopath, you get a bipolar sociopath who can become an abusive partner. And as someone who was married to one, surviving was the only option.
“They didn’t have to do anything because they weren’t mandated at that time to do anything,” said Joe Cheray, a victim of child sex abuse who turned to her church leaders for help. “I felt hopeless.”
The Jonathan Majors saga that has (kinda) gripped the nation for almost a year is stretching out longer than expected: His domestic violence sentencing was pushed to April 8 from Feb. 6 as his lawyers continue to work to get the guilty verdict overturned.