Do emotional abuse and physical abuse go hand in hand? I was just wondering if sometimes, victims just experience the emotional and never the physcial, or if there is emotional only at first but progresses into both?

sometimes victims do just experience emotional, and then there is emotional that progresses into both!

My ex was emotional and verbal. He never hit me, and in his eyes that made him just WONDERFUL...I was with him off and on for ten years and I think if it were going to escalate it would have. Hitting a woman was just not in his self concept, but he could sure make one feel like drinking Clorox.

As the others have said you can have one without the other.

I have been in an abusive relationship both emotional/physical/verbal.

IF I had to choose what type of abuse I had to endure I would choose physical----anyday.

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In my relationship with my ex I had both. The bruises would fade, the cig. burns would scare over but it is the emotional abuse that still after seven years still lingers that I have to this day have to work very hard not to carry that over.

I agree about the emotional. My new husband knew my ex -- for many years -- we all grew up together. He will say something and I will cringe or shrink back and he realizes it is a trigger to what used to be the beginning of abuse. He will make me talk about it and that is the beginning of my emotional healing. It is one of the many reasons I love that man.

MY EX WAS EMOTIONALLY AND PHYSICALLY ABUSIVE. HE WOULD THROWS THINGS AND TALK DOWN TO ME. ALSO HE WOULD MANIPULATE MY FEELINGS TO MAKE ME FEEL SORRY FOR HIM. HE WOULD ALWAYS THREATEN TO KILL HIMSELF IF I LEFT HIM. WHEN I FINALLY LEFT HIM, HE KICKED DOWN MY DOOR AND I CALLED THE POLICE.