Blaming: People with abusive tendencies often do not take responsibility and find excuses to blame people for the things that have gone wrong in their past. They often exaggerate the mistakes of the other party while playing the victim card.
Entitlement: An inflated sense of self goes hand in hand with a feeling of entitlement. They genuinely believe that they should be treated differently than everyone else.
Charisma: Narcissism and charm have been known to overlap, as studies show. The narcissist develops charm as a way of having power over people.
Superiority: Often seen with a person's tone of voice and overall body language. Usually, narcissists look for behaviors in their victims that they can exploit for their own benefits. This might include rudeness to people who might have a low financial status or people with lenient tendencies.
Predatory self-esteem: Predatory self-esteem is characterized by the need to belittle them to feel better about themselves. This might range from derogatory pet names to blackmail.
Pettiness: Abusive person often focuses on one small irrelevant detail of an argument and brews up a storm based on that single point.
Monitoring: While it might seem that a little clinginess hasn’t hurt anyone and might even make someone feel safe, we must know that obsessiveness towards partners might escalate into excessive control over finance, social life, and turn into unilateral decision making.
Abuse in a relationship can occur to anyone, and usually, we do not realize it. In many cases, victims of abuse cannot generate enough courage to tackle the issue. And it is also seen in most of the abusive relationship that the abusers either are unaware of their damaging behaviors or they are suffering from mental or personality disorder.
It can take years of intensive therapies and counseling for a victim of an abusive relationship to become rehabilitated to a normal way of life.
We must always comprehend that the abusers are also human and could also be brought back to normality with the right professional help.
