Its victims are often dismissed simply because their wounds are not visible. We understand and accept that victims of physical or sexual abuse need both time and specialized treatment to heal. That assumption is dangerously wrong.
Emotional abuse scars the heart and damages the soul.
Like cancer, it does its most deadly work internally. And, like cancer, it can metastasize if untreated. I just seem to provoke him somehow. One of the values that adults seek to instill in children is fairness. But if we want to do a better job of teaching children how to be fair, we must set a better example by treating children fairly .