Outsiders often perceive the emotional abuser as a decent, successful, sensitive, calm, and at most, an unremarkable person. However, towards their partner, they are often controlling, egocentric, overly critical, compulsive, childish, and malicious. Emotional abusers are often both. It is this perpetual contrast between the person she loves and the person who harms her that deeply confuses the partner.
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