- the abuser’s favorite keywords and red flags
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delusional • faking • get over it • pity party • pouting • the silent treatment
- abuser tactics
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kitchen sinking • accusations of giving the silent treatment • pity party • see also verbal abuse tactics, below.
- breakup symptoms
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flaky • I’m not looking for a relationship • I need more space • just friends • leading someone on • mind games • you can do no right
- cheater methods and issues
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breakups • being flaky • hypersexual • lying • the Male Menstrual Cycle • mind games
- childish interpersonal beliefs
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carrot on a stick • honesty • it’s not a breakup — I just need more space • we can still be just friends • leading someone on • negative • stoicism • you use big words
- commonly misused terms, words that children use incorrectly
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apologize, apology • boundaries • conceited • crazy • you’re being defensive • drama • fake • forgive • friend • gaslighting • I was just being honest • low self-esteem • manipulative • Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) • negative • nervous breakdown • neurotic • passive-aggressive • pouting • psychiatric put-downs • religious freedom • sense of humor • silent treatment • spite
- techniques intended to reduce and/or damage your self-esteem
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bullying • gaslighting • gossip • I never said that • kitchen sinking • mind games • calling someone needy • pathologizing • pronoun enlargement • psychiatric put-downs • stoicism • verbal abuse • victim blaming • asking Why • you use big words
- how rude people operate
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bigot • carrot on a stick • constructive criticism • dating pool • disloyalty • evil • feeding frenzy in humans • gaslighting • gossip • judgmental • kitchen sinking • leading someone on • manipulation • mean • mind games • pathologizing • projection • psychiatric put-downs • asking Why
- new theories of mind
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the dating pool • feeding frenzy in humans • mind games • political correctness • stoicism • victim blaming •
staying in a relationship just long enough to get the woman pregnant, then falling out of love with her after precisely 23 days, like clockwork, aka the Male Menstrual Cycle
- basic people skills and social skills
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ambiguous compliments • apology • dating pool • eye contact • leading someone on • mind games • negative • no means no • sadness • stoicism
- common interpersonal issues and relationship disorders
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apologize, apology • asexual • bad in bed • compliment • dating pool • dealbreaker • fake • flaky • forgiveness • gossip • honesty • I need more space • irresponsibility • just friends • kitchen sinking • leading someone on • love • loyalty • needy • no means no • non-monogamy • office politics • sadness • verbal abuse • victim blaming
- the dangers of dating
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bad in bed • dating pool • dealbreaker • disloyalty • flaky • honesty • hypersexual • I’m not looking for a relationship • I need more space • just friends • kitchen sinking • leading someone on • love • needy • no means no • non-monogamy • transference • verbal abuse
- personality disorders and mental illnesses
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bigotry • character flaw • feeding frenzy • hypersexual • Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) • stoicism • victim blaming
- verbal abuse tactics
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bullying • character assassination • cutting off your nose to spite your face • feeding frenzy in humans • gaslighting • calling victims hypersensitive • kitchen sinking • being mean • Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) • pathologizing • accusing victims of pouting • definition of verbal abuse
- victim-blaming terms used by abusers
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cutting off your nose to spite your face • emotionally unstable • hypersensitive • negative • pouting • shooting yourself in the foot • silent treatment • spite • stoicism
- terms misused in the workplace
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team player
- workplace terms
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hostile work environment • micromanagement • office politics • pluralizing oneself to look bigger, aka The Blowfish Tactic • talking down to people • team player • definition of verbal abuse
- all terms A–Z
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ambiguous compliment • apologize, apology • asexual • bad faith • bad in bed • big words • bigot, bigotry • carrot on a stick • character, character assassination, character disorder, character flaw •
compliment • conceit, conceited • constructive criticism • cutting off your nose to spite your face • dating pool • dealbreaker • delusional • depression • disloyalty, loyalty • drama • emotionally unstable • evil •
eye contact • fake, phony • feeding frenzy in humans • flaky, unreliable • forgiveness •
gaslighting • get over it • gossip • gossipy • head games • honesty • hypersensitive • I’m not looking for a relationship • I need more space • institutionalized bigotry • irresponsibility, irresponsible •
judgmental • just friends • kitchen sinking •
leading someone on •
love • mean • mind games •
monogamy • Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) • needy •
negative • nervous breakdown •
no, no means no • non-monogamy • office politics • pathologizing • personal worth • phony • political correctness, politically correct, politically incorrect • positive • pouting • responsibility, responsible •
sadness • self-esteem • sense of humor • shooting yourself in the foot • silent treatment • slighted •
spite • stoic, stoicism • team play, team player, teamwork • transference • verbal abuse, verbal abuser, enabler of verbal abuse • why
