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Relationship Stages, Abusive Women and the WTF Moment, Part Two

Written by Dr Tara J. Palmatier on February 9, 2012 - 52 Comments
Categories: Abuse, Accountability, Blame, Dating, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Healthy Relationships, High-Conflict, Marriage, Personality Disorders, Physical Abuse, Psychological Abuse, Relationships, Unhealthy Relationships

Relationships Stages, Abusive Women and the WTF Moment, Part, One, explored the early stages of an abusive relationship and the WTF moment. To clarify, the WTF moment is when the non-abusive partner first realizes there is something wrong with the abusive partner. As noted in Part One, the second relationship stage, the power struggle phase, [...]

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Relationship Stages, Abusive Women and the WTF Moment, Part One

Written by Dr Tara J. Palmatier on January 30, 2012 - 57 Comments
Categories: Abuse, Blame, Dating, Domestic Violence, Healthy Relationships, Marriage, Personality Disorders, Physical Abuse, Psychological Abuse, Relationship Advice, Relationships

What is the WTF moment? Oprah and her minions talk about having an “a-ha” moment or a defining moment of wisdom that you use to change your life. It is my belief that men and women in abusive relationships often have the WTF moment when they see behind an abusive partner’s mask for the first [...]

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Rethinking Female Sociopathy, Part Two

In Rethinking Female Sociopathy, Part One, I went through a comprehensive list of sociopathic traits based on psychologists Hervey Cleckley‘s and Robert Hare’s psychopathy checklists. For every single item mentioned, I can think of a real life example that every one of my clients has suffered. Are these men’s wives, girlfriends and exes sociopaths? Maybe, [...]

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Shrink4Men Radio Embed: High-Conflict Divorce with Attorney Natalie Malonis

Hello Everyone, Thank you to Natalie for being such a wonderful guest and providing such helpful information. Thank you to callers and the folks hanging out in the chat room. Thank you also to Paul Elam of AVoiceforMen for screening calls. For those of you who are interested, the two songs featured on this program [...]

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Shrink4Men Radio Monday, January 9, 2012 at 9pm EST: High-Conflict Divorce with Family Law Attorney Natalie Malonis

Written by Dr Tara J. Palmatier on January 8, 2012 - 6 Comments
Categories: Abuse, Accountability, Blame, Custody, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Financial Abuse, High-Conflict, Legal, Natalie Malonis, Negative Advocates, Parental Alienation, Physical Abuse, Professional Victims, Psychological Abuse

Shrink4Men Radio is back this Monday, January 9, 2012 at 9pm EST with my guest, family law attorney, Natalie Malonis. The topic will be High-Conflict Divorce. Ms. Malonis is both a supporter and contributing author to Shrink4Men. Her articles include: Interview with New Shrink4Men Contributor, Part One: Natalie Malonis, Family Law and High-Conflict Divorce Attorney [...]

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