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I applaud you for making the effort in searching for the truth. It takes a great amount of courage and energy to say 'enough is enough' and go against your usual behaviour. Therefore I won't keep you any longer! My articles are 100% ad free and are a collection of my inner most realisations about love, relationships, life and happiness, put together for you to make sense of your own journey.


NAVIGATING CO-PARENTING AFTER LEAVING AN ABUSER-MANIPULATOR FROM A VICTIM PARENT'S PERSPECTIVE - PART 2
Exploration of the difficulties navigating leaving and co-parenting with a coercively controlling partner.
Michaela Patel
Apr 97 min read


NAVIGATING CO-PARENTING AFTER LEAVING AN ABUSER-MANIPULATOR FROM A VICTIM PARENT'S PERSPECTIVE - PART 1
Exploration of the difficulties navigating leaving and co-parenting with a coercively controlling partner.
Michaela Patel
Apr 95 min read


THE ILLUSION OF LOVE: WHY DO VICTIMS OF COERCIVE CONTROL HOPE THINGS WILL GET BETTER?
Learn why do the victims of coercive control get stuck in unhappiness, hoping things will improve.
Michaela Patel
Feb 97 min read


CONFUSING RELATIONSHIPS: IS YOUR PARTNER BLURRING THE LINES?
Discover how chronic abuse by a toxic partner leads to confusion and how discerning the truth is infinitely validating.
Michaela Patel
Jan 267 min read


UNDERSTANDING THE REALITY OF MANIPULATION: WHY YOU ARE NOT THE CAUSE OF HIS ABUSE
Understand the reality of chronic abuse of women by covertly controlling men.
Michaela Patel
Sep 14, 20246 min read


HOW EASY IS IT TO LEAVE AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP?
Understand why leaving a coercively controlling relationship is an ongoing struggle.
Michaela Patel
Aug 25, 20247 min read


UNCOVERING THE IDENTITIES OF VICTIMS AND PERPETRATORS OF COERCIVE CONTROL: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Exploring the power dynamics between the victims and the perpetrators of coercive control.
Michaela Patel
May 18, 20247 min read


ARE YOU BEING COERCIVELY CONTROLLED BY YOUR PARTNER?
My personal story describing how coercive control looks on the outside and feels on the inside.
Michaela Patel
Apr 17, 202410 min read


DEALING WITH A HIGH CONFLICT PERSONALITY
The truth of dealing with a high conflict, controlling personality.
Michaela Patel
Nov 11, 20237 min read


ARE YOU DEALING WITH AN ENTITLED, DIFFICULT PERSON?
A deep dive into the psyche of an entitled, difficult person.
Michaela Patel
Nov 11, 20237 min read


COVERT AGGRESSION 2
What is covert abuse and why are we prone to enmeshment with manipulative, controlling partners?
Michaela Patel
Jan 11, 20236 min read


COVERT AGGRESSION 1
What is covert control? What kind of partners do covert aggressors pick and why? What makes us prone to endure abuse?
Michaela Patel
Jan 11, 20235 min read


CONTROLLING RELATIONSHIPS: HOW TO DEAL WITH BULLIES
How does control and abuse come about? Restore your sanity and rescue your happiness!
Michaela Patel
Aug 28, 20206 min read


ARE YOU CO-DEPENDENT?
Are you addicted to the idea of love?
Michaela Patel
Apr 20, 20205 min read


WOBBLY PARENTING: COMMON MISTAKES OF PARENTING AND HOW THEY SHAPE OUR CHILDREN
I am a loving, deeply caring, for most parts aware parent who every so often feels like total failure... Any truly responsible parent...
Michaela Patel
Apr 10, 20204 min read


WHY EMPATHS CARRY DRAMA? 2
Unhealed empaths grew up in environments where they have been forced to process others emotionally. Our carers knew nothing, and didn't...
Michaela Patel
Feb 7, 20182 min read


WHY EMPATHS CARRY DRAMA? 1
Us empaths, we are highly tuned to the EMOTIONAL IMBALANCE of our environment. And because we are so emotionally sensitive, we are drawn...
Michaela Patel
Feb 7, 20183 min read


MANIPULATION AND RELATIONSHIPS 2
When you have no desire, nor need, to justify your dos and don'ts to anyone but YOU, you have established a solid relationship with...
Michaela Patel
Dec 11, 20163 min read


MANIPULATION AND RELATIONSHIPS 1
Manipulation is the black magic of relationships. How far are we willing to go in using it determines who tricks who... Some...
Michaela Patel
Dec 11, 20163 min read


HEALING YOU 2
I'd like you to realise how you may have been affected by inadequate upbringing, by demonstrating how the pattern of my own false beliefs...
Michaela Patel
Sep 6, 20164 min read
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