I Was Emotionally and Financially Abused Without Realizing It

Red
5 min readDec 15, 2020
A giant hand holding a tiny person tightly
Controlling — Art by Red

I knew that my ex husband of 10 years wasn’t nice to me. However, I had no idea he was emotionally and financially abusing me. Until I watched some videos about it and my therapist pointed it out to me. I was in shock of how could I not know I was abused for 10 freaking years!

He never yelled or swore at me. The abuse was very covert. He kept telling me that…

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