@elly.psychologist: Getting pulled back into emotional abuse again and again usually is not about weak willpower, it is about three specific reasoning errors that make complete sense in the moment but keep the pattern going. The first is mistaking a sudden return to affection for real resolution, because flowers and extra tenderness after an argument can feel like proof that something has changed, but for someone avoiding accountability, this kind of emotional abuse simply gets paused for a while rather than actually addressed, since being lovely again is usually the fastest way back into your good graces, not evidence the underlying issue has gone anywhere. The second habit worth stopping is mistaking visible distress for genuine remorse, because someone playing the victim within emotional abuse, hating themselves out loud, crying, insisting they never meant it, can sound and look completely convincing, and that is genuinely disorienting since the emotion itself might not even be fake, but real accountability looks nothing like that, it looks like naming exactly what they did and outlining what they will actually do differently rather than asking to be comforted for having caused the emotional abuse in the first place. The third fix has less to do with spotting anything in someone else and everything to do with protecting your own memory, because the alternating cycle of harm and warmth inside emotional abuse, combined with tactics like gaslighting and denial, genuinely erodes your ability to hold onto what actually happened, which is why writing down specifically and immediately what hurt you gives you something solid to return to that is not at the mercy of how good the next good day happens to feel, and none of this emotional abuse is ever your fault, even the parts you may have triggered, because the behaviour itself belongs entirely to the person choosing to do it. Official accounts and resources: www.ellyanastasiades.com #emotionalabuse #abusiverelationship #relationshipabuse #relationshipproblems #relationshiptok

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