Many people recognize emotional abuse when the victim is a woman. Far fewer recognize it when the victim is a man.

In this video essay, I explore how controlling, manipulative, and emotionally abusive behaviours can become so normalized that they're dismissed as "just how women are," "happy wife, happy life," or "that's just marriage."

We discuss:

• Why common relationship behaviours aren't always healthy.

• The difference between insecurity, emotional dependence, and emotional abuse.

• What female-on-male emotional abuse can actually look like.

• Why constantly walking on eggshells isn't normal.

• How mental health may explain behaviour but never excuses abuse.

• Accountability, boundaries, and protecting your own wellbeing.

This video is not about attacking women or denying that women experience abuse. Women absolutely do experience abuse. Abuse is abuse regardless of who commits it or who experiences it.

If this video helps even one person recognise unhealthy relationship patterns or feel less alone, then it was worth making.

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