Seek outside help from a counselor or support group. Make plans to create a better environment for yourself. Unlike the woman who is being physically abused, you have time to plan. Don't stay too long, though, because every time your self-esteem sinks further, you lessen your chances of actually leaving. Remember, verbal abuse, can and sometimes does, turn physical.
Verbal abuse escalates.
Physical abuse escalates. The Verbally Abusive Relationship How to recognize it and how to respond by Patricia Evans Verbal abuse is a kind of battering which doesn't leave evidence like physical abuse does. However, it can be just as painful, and recovery can take much longer. The victim of abuse lives in a gradually more confusing realm. In public she is with one man, in private he becomes another.