Manipulations, gaslighting, and giving the silent treatment are the obvious signs of psychological abuse that you’re aware of but when you’re in an abusive and toxic Massachusetts relationship, there’s a subtlety to this kind of emotional abuse that cannot be easy to...
The Harassment Prevention Order (M.G.L. c. 258E) is a law that went into effect May 10, 2010 and allows victims of stalking, sexual assault and/or harassment to obtain a harassment prevention order against his/her perpetrator. There is no requirement of a relationship...
Massachusetts enacted the Abuse Prevention Act, Massachusetts General Las Chapter 209A to allow protection for someone abused by a person close to him or her. Abuse for purposes of this law, means: attempting to cause or causing physical harm; placing another in fear...
Anger is a perfectly natural emotion, and a primitive one as well. It's a fight or flight response - something that our minds and bodies need in order to tell us when we're unsafe. One of the biggest mistakes anyone can make is to treat anger as something unnatural....