Abusive Relationship
Chelsey White
Intro. Psychology
Augusta University
Abusive Relationship
Throughout life, we go through many changes. These changes are considered our development. Development is a slow, endless shaping process. An abusive relationship may be considered developmental. Abuse doesn’t necessarily start in the beginning of a relationship. It’s a process that happens over time. In the beginning of an abusive relationship, the victim perhaps could not tell or ignored the signs of an abuser. A victim’s conscious can hinder them from leaving an abuser. Mental processes that are associated with thinking, remembering, and communicating are cognitive. When we are younger, we develop during stages in our life, but with age we comprehend …show more content…
Children construct their understanding of the world by their interactions with the world. Their minds undergo changes which helps them gain stability. In an abusive relationship we may notice the victim may be avoiding some of the behaviors they wish to partake in due to the theory of mind, which is a person’s idea about their own and other’s mental states. For an example, the victim may take the abuser’s perspective, and attempt to understand and explain what may anger the abuser, or what the abuser may want or may not want. On the the other hand, the abuser may take the victim’s perspective and think of ways the victim may try to leave, driving them to think of what they could say to make them stay, resulting in the abuser trying to tease, empathize, or even persuade the victim to do as they say. Persuading the victim may show the victim that the abuser could have some attachment, an emotional tie, to them. Some people may refer to an attachment as an unbreakable bond. In an abusive …show more content…
They depend on meeting the abuser’s needs and are mostly comfortable in the situation. You may wonder, how does a victim feel comfortable in an abusive relationship? It is evident that the victim usually is comfortable or familiar with the surroundings or the abuser. The survival impulse the victim has intensifies the victim’s need to keep close to their abuser. Temperament is a factor in relationships. It’s a person’s characteristic emotional reactivity and strength through genetics. Temperament helps form our continuing personality. Which helps us understand how an abuser may form their abusive personality. Another, significant factor that may have an influence on abusive relationships are parenting styles. Understanding that there are different parenting styles explains what children are exposed or not exposed to. In abusive relationships, the parent of the abuser may have been neglectful. The parent did not show love or have limits, which left the abuser feeling angry, anxious and rebellious because they remain unsure of their worth and social rules. However, the abuser could have also had a parent who was an authoritarian. In this case, the parent had strict limits, but didn’t show love and the abuser may have showed signs of unhappiness and
Chelsey White
Intro. Psychology
Augusta University
Abusive Relationship
Throughout life, we go through many changes. These changes are considered our development. Development is a slow, endless shaping process. An abusive relationship may be considered developmental. Abuse doesn’t necessarily start in the beginning of a relationship. It’s a process that happens over time. In the beginning of an abusive relationship, the victim perhaps could not tell or ignored the signs of an abuser. A victim’s conscious can hinder them from leaving an abuser. Mental processes that are associated with thinking, remembering, and communicating are cognitive. When we are younger, we develop during stages in our life, but with age we comprehend …show more content…
Children construct their understanding of the world by their interactions with the world. Their minds undergo changes which helps them gain stability. In an abusive relationship we may notice the victim may be avoiding some of the behaviors they wish to partake in due to the theory of mind, which is a person’s idea about their own and other’s mental states. For an example, the victim may take the abuser’s perspective, and attempt to understand and explain what may anger the abuser, or what the abuser may want or may not want. On the the other hand, the abuser may take the victim’s perspective and think of ways the victim may try to leave, driving them to think of what they could say to make them stay, resulting in the abuser trying to tease, empathize, or even persuade the victim to do as they say. Persuading the victim may show the victim that the abuser could have some attachment, an emotional tie, to them. Some people may refer to an attachment as an unbreakable bond. In an abusive …show more content…
They depend on meeting the abuser’s needs and are mostly comfortable in the situation. You may wonder, how does a victim feel comfortable in an abusive relationship? It is evident that the victim usually is comfortable or familiar with the surroundings or the abuser. The survival impulse the victim has intensifies the victim’s need to keep close to their abuser. Temperament is a factor in relationships. It’s a person’s characteristic emotional reactivity and strength through genetics. Temperament helps form our continuing personality. Which helps us understand how an abuser may form their abusive personality. Another, significant factor that may have an influence on abusive relationships are parenting styles. Understanding that there are different parenting styles explains what children are exposed or not exposed to. In abusive relationships, the parent of the abuser may have been neglectful. The parent did not show love or have limits, which left the abuser feeling angry, anxious and rebellious because they remain unsure of their worth and social rules. However, the abuser could have also had a parent who was an authoritarian. In this case, the parent had strict limits, but didn’t show love and the abuser may have showed signs of unhappiness and