Dear Carolyn. DEAR CAROLYN: When I married my wonderful husband, he asked if we could cut ties with his family. I thought he was joking. He grew up in a verbally and emotionally abusive household ...

Verbal abuse can take a major toll on self-esteem, mental health, and well-being. Understanding how to recognize it is the first step toward getting help and healing from the harm it has caused.

Dealing with verbal abuse in marriage Dear Harriet, thank God I got a person like you. I have been in a verbally abusive marriage and my husband doesn’t see anything wrong in it.

I don’t know if you have ever dealt with anything like this. When my wife gets angry, or she does not get her way, she gets really mean. Sometimes I will sleep in the spare bedroom because there is so ...

Dear Abby: Brother puts abusive wife ahead of remaining family. A reader’s brother has cut ties at the demand of his manipulative wife and wonders how to deal with the loss.

When I married my wonderful husband, he asked if we could cut ties with his family. I thought he was joking. He grew up in a verbally and emotionally abusive household — something I will never ...

He grew up in a verbally and emotionally abusive household -- something I will never fully understand, but definitely didn't grasp pre-marriage.