Understanding the Impact of Emotional Abuse: How It Can Feel Like Emotional Rape

When my covert narc ex discarded me, I felt completely violated as the reality and severity of the abuse slowly began to register in my trauma-filled, foggy brain. But I struggled to articulate or understand where that sense of violation came from. And then it hit me. I felt like I’d been emotionally raped.

unresolved anger brought on by betrayal and psychological abuse, which can be detrimental