Are you walking on eggshells in your own home? Does it feel like your alcoholic, narcissistic abusive spouse is two different people? Do you suffer from a high level of anxiety because you don’t know what mood your alcoholic, narcissistic abusive spouse will be in? Has your alcoholic, narcissistic, and emotionally abusive spouse taking their anger out on you? And, do you feel like that you are their emotional outlet and dumping mat? These are common feelings when you have a spouse who is an alcoholic, narcissistic, and emotionally abusive. Working with an alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist and emotional abuse specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you rebuild self-esteem, confidence, and become resilient.
Is your spouse newly sober after years of being an alcoholic, but still has narcissistic personality disorder traits and emotionally abuses you?
Does your spouse guilt trip you, criticize you, belittle you, publicly humiliate you, and make you feel small and worthless?
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Relationship counseling and marriage therapy can help you understand if your partner is narcissistic, an alcoholic, and emotionally abusive.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, a combo of individual counseling sessions and couples therapy sessions can help you decide if staying together or separation is better. When you are a female, married to a man who is an alcoholic, he commonly also has narcissistic personality disorder. Often times, when your husband is an alcoholic, they are also a narcissist, and emotionally abusive to you. Yelling, guilt-trips, intentionally hurtful comments, name calling, anger, rage, and criticism are common.
Working with an alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist and emotional abuse specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling can give you mental clarity
Your alcoholic, narcissistic, and emotionally abusive husband may also say things that are hurtful to your children. However, as their intimate partner, you get the most intense, emotionally abusive treatment.
Your marriage can survive when your husband has alcoholism only when your spouse is willing to improve themselves. Therefore, couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can help your alcoholic, narcissistic, and emotionally abusive husband take ownership. Your spouse needs to learn relationship building skills to take accountability for his hurtful actions. The only way that your marriage can be sustained is when your alcoholic, narcissistic, and emotionally abusive husband begins to make positive behavioral changes.
How do I know if my husband an alcoholic, has narcissistic personality disorder, and is emotionally abusive?
You feel anxious, hurt, confused, insecure, invalidated, unimportant, pushes aside, scared, and walk on eggshells. When your husband struggles with alcoholism and narcissistic personality disorder, he may care more about drinking alcohol than spending time with you. Your children are often caught in the line of fire and conflict.
Instead of going to your child’s baseball game, your husband will withdraw and drink alone at home. As well, you may feel afraid and like you are walking on eggshells at home.
After you’ve put your children to bed, your husband may come home in a drunken rage and take it out on you and your children. Even if your husband is newly sober, he may still struggle with explosive anger issues. When your husband struggles with alcoholism, drug use, narcissistic personality disorder, and is emotionally abusive, he makes you his emotional outlet.
After years of emotionally abusive, unfair treatment, your self-esteem decreases.
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Women who have a spouse who is an alcoholic, narcissistic, and emotionally abusive can use counseling to develop self-confidence and self-worth tools
Being in a relationship with your spouse who is an alcoholic, narcissistic, and emotionally abusive can be an incredibly challenging and draining experience for any woman. It’s important to remember that you are not alone, and there is hope for a brighter future through therapy. Working with an alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist and emotional abuse specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling can give you mental clarity.
Seeking counseling with a narcissistic abuse specialist can be a powerful tool to help you develop self-confidence and self-worth. As well, therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling helps you to regain control of your life and build a healthier, happier future, with or without your spouse.
Living with a spouse who exhibits alcoholic, narcissistic, and emotionally abusive behaviors can have severe impacts on your emotional well-being and self-esteem.
The constant manipulation, gaslighting, and unpredictability can leave you feeling powerless and questioning your own worth. It’s crucial to recognize that these abusive behaviors are not your fault. Also, counseling can help you learn that you deserve to be treated with respect and kindness.
Working with an alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist and emotional abuse specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you feel supported
Counseling at Wisdom Within provides a safe and supportive space where you can express your emotions. You may not feel safe talking with your alcoholic, narcissistic spouse. As well, counseling can help you gain insights into your marriage, and work towards personal growth. Counseling can help you in your journey towards developing self-confidence and self-worth after narcissistic abuse from an alcoholic spouse.
Validation and empowerment are benefits of working with an alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist and emotional abuse specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling
Counseling offers a non-judgmental environment where you can openly share your experiences. At Wisdom Within Counseling, your therapist can validate your feelings. As well, your therapist can reassure you that you’re not alone, and help you understand that the abuse is not a reflection of your worth. Through emotional validation, you can begin to rebuild your self-confidence and reclaim your power.
Therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you understanding narcissistic abuse for what it is
Furthermore, counseling can provide you with insights into the dynamics of narcissistic abuse. By learning about the characteristics and tactics of narcissists, you can gain clarity. Additionally, you can learn and understand that the abuse you face is not a result of any inadequacy on your part. This understanding empowers you to detach emotionally from your spouse abuser. Counseling is especially helpful because you may love your spouse, but also hate how they treat you. Working with an alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist and emotional abuse specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling helps you focus on your own well-being.
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Setting boundaries are other benefits of alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapy
One of the key aspects of working with an alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist and emotional abuse specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling is helping you establish healthy boundaries. You will learn to identify and communicate your needs. Next, you can learn to assertively express your emotions, and set limits. Setting limits is important regarding what you are willing to accept in your romantic relationship. Building and maintaining boundaries is essential for rebuilding your self-worth. Many times, the hardest part is maintaining and enforcing boundaries with an alcoholic and narcissistic spouse. From counseling, you can work on skills that help you protect your emotional well-being.
Rebuilding self-esteem is a benefit from working with an alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist and emotional abuse specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling
Over time, the abusive behaviors may have chipped away at your self-esteem. You may doubt yourself, and feel helpless. Or, you may wonder if you are at fault or to blame for the narcissistic abuse you face. Maybe, you wonder if something is wrong with you for not being a good enough wife. You may try to blame yourself for the behaviors of your narcissistic spouse. Working with an alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist and emotional abuse specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you stop and overcome these limiting, self-critical beliefs. Counseling can support you in rebuilding a positive self-image and nurturing self-compassion. By exploring your strengths, accomplishments, and values, you can develop a healthier sense of self-worth and cultivate self-confidence.
Alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling helps you develop an exit strategy
As well, counseling can help you explore various options and resources available to you. Your narcissistic specialist and marriage therapist can guide you in developing safety plans and exiting the relationship. You may need support to connect with support groups. As well, you may need encouragement to seek legal advice if necessary. Your marriage therapist and narcissistic, emotional abuse specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling can also assist you in developing an exit strategy from your abusive relationship, should you choose to pursue that path.
If you find yourself in a relationship with an alcoholic, narcissistic, and emotionally abusive spouse, remember that you deserve better.
Seeking counseling can be a transformative step towards rebuilding your self-confidence and self-worth. By working with a narcissistic abuse specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling, you can gain the tools, insights, and support necessary to reclaim your power. Additionally, you can heal from the narcissistic abuse, and build a brighter and more fulfilling future.
Working with an alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist and emotional abuse specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you remember that you are worthy of love, respect, and happiness.
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What are signs of narcissistic abuse and emotional trauma?
Manipulation and gaslighting are signs of narcissistic abuse and emotional abuse
Narcissistic abusers often manipulate situations and people to suit their needs. They may use gaslighting techniques to make you doubt your own perceptions, memories, and sanity. Working with an alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist and emotional abuse specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you identify gaslighting behaviors. Then, you don’t have to feel insecure or question your own reality. From counseling, you can instead feel sure of yourself and confident that you are being manipulated.
Constant criticism is a sign of narcissistic abuse and emotional abuse
Notably, narcissistic abusers frequently criticize and belittle their partners, eroding their self-esteem. Your narcissistic, alcoholic, and emotionally abusive spouse may make derogatory comments about your appearance. You may face constant judgment and criticism about your abilities. Your narcissistic, emotionally abusive spouse will put down your achievements to maintain control over you.
Lack of empathy is a sign of narcissistic abuse and emotional abuse
Narcissists have difficulty empathizing with others. Your narcissistic, alcoholic, and emotionally abusive spouse will dismiss and invalidate your feelings. Over time, these invalidating behaviors make you feel unheard, small, inferior, and unimportant.
Grandiosity and superiority are signs of narcissistic abuse and emotional abuse
As well, narcissistic abusers have an inflated sense of self-importance. Your alcoholic, narcissistic, and emotionally abusive spouse will exaggerate their achievements and boast. Additionally, they will seek constant admiration, and believe they are superior to others.
Emotional manipulation is a sign of narcissistic abuse and emotional abuse
Furthermore, narcissists use emotional manipulation tactics to control their partners. Your alcoholic, narcissistic, and emotionally abusive spouse will employ guilt-tripping, emotional blackmail, or silent treatment. When you want to connect, they purposefully disconnect from you. And, your alcoholic, narcissistic, and emotionally abusive spouse will use these as a means of exerting power and gaining compliance.
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Isolation is a sign of narcissistic abuse and emotional abuse
Narcissistic abusers often isolate their partners from friends and family. Isolation is a form of abuse that creates a sense of dependence on the abuser. And, isolation is a method of reducing your healthy support systems. Your alcoholic, narcissistic, and emotionally abusive spouse may discourage or sabotage your relationships with others. In turn, isolation behaviors leave you feeling like you need your abuser and alone. Working with an alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist and emotional abuse specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you gain support. From counseling, you can identify abusive tactics like emotional manipulation, control, and isolation.
Lack of boundaries are signs of narcissistic abuse and emotional abuse
As well, narcissistic abusers disregard personal boundaries and invade your privacy. They may disregard your need for space. Furthermore, your narcissistic, alcoholic, and emotionally abusive spouse may constantly intrude on your personal matters, or use your vulnerabilities against you. Secrets that you have shared with your spouse in confidence will be brought back up and used against you.
Signs that you have been dealing with emotional trauma and narcissistic abuse from your spouse
Intense Fear and Anxiety
Emotional trauma from your narcissistic, emotionally abusive, alcoholic spouse can lead to heightened fear and anxiety responses. Walking on eggshells at home is common. You may experience frequent panic attacks, feelings of impending doom, or have difficulty trusting others. Working with an alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist and emotional abuse specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling
Emotional Numbness
When you have experienced emotional trauma from your narcissistic, emotionally abusive, alcoholic spouse in your marriage, you may develop a sense of emotional numbness. This is a defense mechanism. You may struggle to feel joy, happiness, or other positive emotions.
Low Self-Esteem
Emotional trauma from in your marriage from your narcissistic, emotionally abusive, alcoholic spouse can erode your self-esteem. In time, this leaves you feeling unworthy and inadequate. You may struggle with self-doubt, negative self-talk, and a constant need for validation from others. As well, you may find yourself apologizing a lot more than necessary.
Avoidance Behavior
When you have experienced emotional trauma from a narcissistic, emotionally abusive, alcoholic spouse, this leads to avoidance behaviors. For instance, you avoid locations, places, or rooms of your house where emotional abuse occurs. This is in an effort to protect yourself from enduring more pain. People, places, and things can re-trigger emotionally abusive memories. You may avoid certain people, places, or activities associated with the narcissistic abuse and emotional trauma.
Flashbacks and Intrusive Memories
Essentially, narcissistic abuse and emotional trauma in your marriage can manifest as flashbacks or intrusive memories. You may have horrible memories of the traumatic events you have lived through. These can be distressing and cause a re-experiencing of the trauma. You may have trouble sleeping and eating, even long after it occurred.
Changes in Relationships
Emotional trauma and narcissistic abuse can impact romantic relationships of all kinds. You may have been together three months, or together 40 years. Trauma leads to difficulties in forming deep connections or maintaining trust with your spouse and others. You may have difficulty setting boundaries or struggle with intimacy now and in the future too.
Physical Symptoms
As well, narcissistic abuse and emotional trauma in your marriage from your narcissistic, emotionally abusive, alcoholic spouse can manifest in physical symptoms such as headaches, digestive issues, chronic pain, and insomnia. These symptoms may not have a clear medical cause. But, they are connected to the emotional distress and are trauma symptoms.
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Working with an alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist and emotional abuse specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help when you have been or are in an abusive relationship or emotionally traumatic relationship.
Counseling can help you recognize these signs when you are in an abusive relationship and experiencing emotional trauma from a narcissistic, emotionally abusive, alcoholic spouse. At Wisdom Within Counseling, our individual and couples therapists provide the necessary guidance and resources to help you heal and regain control over your life.
Should I get divorced if my spouse is an alcoholic, narcissistic, and emotionally abusive?
When your husband is an alcoholic, even if he gets sober, he may still have narcissistic personality disorder and be emotionally abusive.
Just because your husband is no longer drinking alcohol, he may still gaslight you, blame you, and guilt trip you. There may be anger management issues and rageful behaviors that he is not dealing with. When his behaviors continue to hurt you and your children, you may be considering separation and divorce.
The process of counseling with a specialist who understands relationship and marital dynamics along with trauma and abuse is important. The team at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you understand the impact of alcoholism, your husband’s narcissistic personality disorder, and the emotional abuse on your marriage.
Due to alcoholism and emotional abuse, you may feel like you can no longer trust your spouse. It may feel like your home is a chaotic place and you are not emotionally safe at home.
Your alcoholic and narcissistic abuse marriage therapist can help you articulate how your partner’s alcohol abuse and emotional abuse has negatively impacted trust. As well, couples counseling and marriage therapy can help you and your spouse think clearly and clarity around the topic of divorce.
Unhealthy drinking habits, alcoholism, drug use, narcissistic personality disorder, and emotional abuse can ruin a marriage.
When you feel unsafe emotionally, the foundation of your marriage deteriorates. Hurtful criticisms, anger explosions, rageful arguments, and emotional instability break down your marriage. In addition to verbal abuse from your narcissistic husband, you may also be afraid of facing physical aggression.
When your marriage is disheveled and you feel emotionally distant, couples therapy can be an opportunity to rebuild emotional connection and safety. Building emotional intimacy and emotional trust is the first step in seeing if your marriage is salvageable.
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Working with a marriage therapist and specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help your partner take ownership for their unhealthy drinking habits and emotional abuse.
Your spouse can learn how to meet your emotional intimacy needs. From couples therapy and marriage counseling, you can develop a better understanding of how to re-stabilize your marriage through building emotional intimacy skills.
Improving communication can be another benefit of marriage counseling when alcoholism has taken a toll. Even when your husband is sober, angry arguments and explosive fighting can be just as damaging.
When your husband has abused alcohol, he may have also grown up in an emotionally abusive home.
Marriage counseling with a specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling and help your husband who is also struggling with narcissistic personality disorder and emotional abuse tendencies to better understand his childhood influences.
He may have had a parent who was narcissistic, emotionally abusive or physically aggressive. Being able to talk about how he was taught to treat others, based on how his parents treated him, can be a part of couples therapy.
Looking at upbringing, what emotional abuse behaviors were normalized, and the impact on your current relationship, can be positive parts of couples therapy.
Often times, alcoholism and narcissistic personality disorder traits are passed down generation from generation.
This means that when your husband is an alcoholic and has emotionally abusive tendencies, he learned these from the people he grew up around. He may have seen male role models physically abuse women. Emotional abuse, put downs, guilt trips, and explosive anger may have been normalized by the adults who raised him.
He may have seen his father and his grandfather drinking excessively, having affairs, lying, yelling, and being explosive with their anger. Even though these are negative relationship behaviors and damaging, if all he saw growing up were these, he may think they are normal. At Wisdom Within Counseling, meeting with an alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist can help you break unhealthy generational patterns.
Couples counseling can help alcoholics better understand healthy communication skills.
As well, when your husband has narcissistic personality disorder, even if he is sober, his mood will be unpredictable. From marriage counseling, your husband with a narcissistic personality disorder can learn how to have more stable moods. He can share how he is feeling more openly, rather than holding it in.
By communicating when he feels and being emotionally vulnerable, you can both begin to improve your marriage. Couples counseling can help when you are wondering if you should divorce your alcoholic, narcissistic, and emotionally abusive husband.
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Marriage therapy can also help you, as a survivor of abuse, cope with extreme levels of stress and anxiety.
Because you are walking on eggshells all the time, you may feel tearful, low and self-esteem, or low and self-worth. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can learn a variety of different positive coping tools. To add, therapy can help you understand how your spouse’s alcoholism and emotional abuse has affected you. You can also learn how to set boundaries and maintain them. A mixture of art, yoga, music, meditation, and other relaxation skills in couples counseling can help you cope.
Wisdom Within Counseling specializes in a holistic, mind body, and somatic trauma approach. Holistic counseling at Wisdom Wisdom includes a variety of mind-body therapies as positive coping skills. Painting, musical instruments, and even meditation can be very helpful after trauma. Your therapist can teach you these different relaxation therapies right in session.
You can learn how to build a positive self-care tool kit to stay emotionally grounded from meeting with a Wisdom Within Counseling alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist.
Survivors of emotional abuse can learn how to cope with depression and other mental health issues in a healthy way from meeting with a Wisdom Within Counseling alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist.
Couples counseling can help you, when you love your spouse who is narcissistic, not be so affected by their behaviors. You can stay strong when they use put downs, criticism, or guilt trips. Counseling can also provide you with an outlet to talk about the pain and the hurt that you haven’t heard in the past.
The team at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you understand the effects of living with your alcoholic spouse. And, meeting with an alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist can help you overcome emotional harm from the past.
You can learn how to reconnect to different social groups, create your own identity, and even find your own hobbies. Getting stronger and more resilient can be benefits of individual therapy and couples counseling. You can learn to take back your power when you are living with an alcoholic, narcissistic, and emotionally abusive spouse.
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Is it difficult to divorce an alcoholic, narcissist, and emotionally abusive husband?
Also, when you want to divorce and separate from your alcoholic, narcissistic, and emotionally abusive husband, counseling with an alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist can be helpful. It can be very easy to make decisions when you are stressed out, tearful, or very anxious.
Rather than making a decision to divorce or separate out of a time of high emotion, you can gain mental clarity. Marriage therapy and individual counseling can help you talk about your fears and worries.
You and your alcoholic, narcissistic husband can have a safe place to prevent conversations from becoming conflicts.
Rather than getting into a high conflict fight, you can have the support of a professional marriage therapist to help you have these conversations.
The grief process with an alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist
When you are married, there are sets of expectations that are often not talked about. Society teaches us that marriage is joyful, happy, and we should always get along. Hollywood movies do a disservice. We are told from Hollywood movies that our marital and sex life should always be great. And, couples should always be having fun together.
But, when you find yourself married to an alcoholic, narcissist, and emotional abuser, your life is far from great.
When your partner drinks alcohol and excess, yells at you, guilt trips you, and emotionally abuses you, your life is not a Hollywood movie.
Everything that you have been told about what you thought marriage would be is not what your marriage is. Aslo, when you look at your friends posting happy photos with their husbands on social media, you may feel envious or jealous.
When you realize that you are married to someone with narcissistic personality disorder, an alcoholic, and who is emotionally abusive, your alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist helps you grieve.
Counseling can be a safe place to grieve the loss of the marriage you thought you were building. Going into marriage, you may have thought it would have been very positive.
Couples counseling and individual therapy can help you grieve the loss of the dream of your marriage.
Parts of you may still be in denial that your husband has narcissistic personality disorder or is an alcoholic. However, when you are facing emotional abuse on a daily basis from an alcoholic, it is also normal to become overly forgiving.
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You may try to be the caretaker or the fixer due to narcissistic abuse in your marriage.
As well, you might even develop internal blame, wondering if you are causing your partner to drink in excess or emotionally abuse you. Your partner who is an alcoholic and narcissistic may also blame you for their alcohol misuse.
Couples counseling and individual therapy can help you better understand the chaos you are living in and grieve the marriage you thought you were building.
Marriage therapy with an alcoholic, narcissistic abuse couples counselor can help you create a meaningful marriage, if you choose to do so
From there, you and your spouse and have conversations such as trying activities together that don’t include drinking alcohol. Instead of going to a restaurant where it may be tempting to order alcohol, you can start to go golfing, go to the beach, or go to a yoga class.
Doing dates together that do not involve drinking alcohol can be a good start to rebuilding your marriage. As well, many times, even sober alcoholics need to have a physical activity on a daily basis.
So, you both might pick up running together, or join a local run club. Physical activity and movement-based activities can be very fun dates.
When you are repairing your marriage with a spouse who has narcissistic personality disorder and who is now sober, making sure you are not around alcohol will be important. Even if you may not be tempted to drink, being in a restaurant can be very tempting for your spouse who is newly sober.
Couples counseling and individual therapy can also help your spouse talk about the cravings and triggers they have when it comes to drinking alcohol.
When they can’t drink alcohol, they may get moody, irritable, and anxious. Therefore, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling can help both you and your spouse take care of yourselves better. Your spouse can learn ways to manage their triggers such as developing social outlet, hobbies, and verbalizing emotions.
As well, you can learn to understand that your spouse’s emotions are not something you have to fix.
You don’t have to make your spouse feel better if they are feeling upset. Working with a Wisdom Within Counseling alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist can help you can simply be there to support them and let them know they are not alone.
As well, marriage therapy and couples counseling can help you both talk about codependency issues.
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Can counseling help me decide if I should get divorced from my alcoholic, narcissistic, and emotionally abusive husband?
Furthermore, couples counseling and marriage therapy can help you decide if you should leave and divorce your spouse.
When your spouse is an alcoholic, has narcissistic personality disorder and is emotionally abusive, this can be very challenging. You may feel anxious, like you’re walking on eggshells, and have trouble sleeping.
As well, you may feel afraid that your spouse will treat you poorly. And, you don’t know when your spouse will guilt trip you, yell at you, and it feels like they are Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
One moment your spouse is happy and the next moment they are publicly humiliating you and embarrassing you. You don’t know who you are going to get. If your spouse who is emotionally abusive and narcissistic wants to change their behaviors for the better, this is a positive sign.
Couples counseling and marriage therapy can help you both again better communication skills. You bet both may have grown up around people that didn’t teach you how to communicate well. Therefore, couples therapy and marriage counseling and help you shift from criticism, blaming, and guilt tripping behaviors. And, you can learn how to build affection, fondness, express feelings, and be emotionally vulnerable.
Often times, alcoholism and narcissistic personality disorder go hand-in-hand. Your spouse may have been hurt by his caregivers growing up. And, as a result, he builds an emotional wall against you as his romantic partner. Wisdom Within Counseling specializes in complex trauma symptoms and helping couples break generational patterns of abuse.
Counseling and marriage therapy can help your spouse learn how to be emotionally vulnerable and emotionally intimate.
Rather than bottling up or stuffing away emotions, your spouse can learn how to turn towards you. For example, your alcoholic and narcissistic spouse may need help expressing insecurity, fears of rejection, or other vulnerable emotions.
Growing up, your alcoholic and narcissistic spouse was not taught how to share their emotions in an intimate way. Emotional intimacy is a very important part for every healthy marriage.
As a result, your spouse may have turned to drinking and emotionally pushing others away as methods to numb emotions. Your spouse may have numbed out from a young age. More so, marriage therapy and couples counseling and help your spouse learn how to talk about their emotions and release their feelings in a healthy way.
Learning emotional connection tools are important parts of having a healthy marriage.
By developing more emotional intimacy and emotional connection, you and your spouse can learn how to reconnect. Your alcoholic and narcissistic spouse may also be carrying regret, shame, and guilt for the emotional abuse tactics they have used on you in the past.
To note, it is normal for alcoholics and people with narcissistic personality people to feel regret. When your spouse has yelled at you, belittle you, called your name, or even giving you the silent treatment, they may feel regret.
Counseling at Wisdom Within can help your spouse identify regret, insecurity, and develop more emotional vulnerability skills.
However, your spouse doesn’t have the skills or tools to communicate how they feel right now. Couples counseling at Wisdom Within can provide skills and tools so that your spouse can better communicate what they are truly feeling.
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When is it time to divorce an alcoholic, narcissist, and emotionally abusive spouse?
Now, it is time to divorce your alcoholic, narcissistic, and emotionally abusive spouse when their negative behaviors are consistently getting worse. Is your partner tearing you down? Do you feel like you aren’t ever good enough? Walking on eggshells at home?
Your alcoholic, narcissistic, and emotionally abusive spouse can learn from counseling how to better take care of themselves and you. However, if your alcoholic, narcissistic, and emotionally abusive spouse shows no signs of stopping their behaviors or reducing use, you may want to leave.
Perhaps, you may have already consulted with a divorce attorney. Before jumping right to divorce, it is important to work with a couples therapist and marriage counselor to better understand if your marriage is salvageable.
After marriage counseling and couples therapy at Wisdom Within, your marriage therapist can also provide feedback on whether divorce is a good option.
From marriage therapy and couples counseling, you can also gain a sense of clarity on whether your spouse’s unpredictable behaviors are able change.
Though your spouse may have acted in dangerous, hurtful, and emotionally abusive ways in the past, they may be willing to change.
If their behavior changes in a positive direction, you may no longer want to get divorced. However, if your alcoholic, emotionally abusive, and narcissistic husband escalates and becomes physically abusive, it may be best to pursue divorce.
Living with an alcoholic and narcissistic spouse can lead to intimacy issues, anxiety, mistrust, and relationship breakdown.
The bottom line is that you deserve to have a relationship that leads you to feel safe, fulfilled, and emotionally connected.
We often don’t learn how to build emotionally close, connected, or meaningful relationships growing up. You and your spouse may have seen parents who struggled with alcoholism, were emotionally abusive to each other, and disconnected.
So, marriage therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling gives you and your spouse an opportunity to address intimacy issues, build emotional intimacy, and regain a sense of trust.
By improving physical intimacy, emotional intimacy, and communication skills, you can create an even healthier marriage with your spouse. Your spouse also has to want and be willing to put in work.
Once your alcoholic spouse gets sober, this is a positive step in the right direction of rebuilding your marriage. When you are in a marriage with an alcoholic, who has narcissistic personality disorder, and who has been emotionally abusive, counseling can help you talk about the past.
Talk about the past with your alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling
When you talk about the past at home, it may lead to a variety of different high conflict fights. There may be intense emotions that get triggered for you both. So, counseling is a safe place outside of your home to talk.
In couples therapy and marriage counseling, you and your spouse can talk about different emotions you have been feeling. There may be elements of frustration, sadness, loss, grief, and betrayal that you need help talking about with your marriage counselor.
As well, you may need to seek support from programs like Al-Anon and your husband may need the help of alcoholics anonymous for emotional support. In addition to couples therapy and counseling Al-Anon and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings can be helpful for self-care.
Even if your spouse has a narcissistic personality disorder, you may still be afraid that they could blow up an anger or go back abusing alcohol, even if they have gotten sober.
In couples therapy and marriage counseling you can talk about fears of bad things happening again. Your spouse can learn how to listen to you and validate your emotions. Additionally, you may find yourself getting emotionally torn up, angry, or afraid when your husband is aggressive.
Being able to talk about this in the safety of couples counseling can promote open communication. Your spouse may need the help of a marriage therapist to better understand alternatives and healthy communication skills.
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Meeting with your alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you gain healthy communication skills to feel more emotionally safe.
As well, your spouse can learn how emotional abuse is not healthy and there are alternatives communication wise to create a better relationship. Also, your spouse can better understand that you may be suffering from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety due to their past history of coming home in a drunken rage.
Working with an alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapist and emotional abuse specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you put yourself first. As a spouse, you deserve to have a place to rebuild you self-worth and self-respect. Counseling can be your healthy outlet. Marriage therapy can help you and your spouse learn to communicate emotions calmly and foster appreciation. As a spouse, you may be stuck in a caregiving or fixing mode, or survival mode. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can learn about the importance of prioritizing yourself and practicing self-care.
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Wisdom Within Counseling specializes in alcoholism, narcissistic abuse, and emotional abuse and are a team of couples and marriage therapists.
Counseling services are available to couples in Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansa, Louisiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Hampshire, and Maine.
Where in Florida does the Wisdom Within Counseling team offer specialized alcoholic, narcissistic abuse marriage therapy?
In Florida, Wisdom Within Counseling specializes in alcoholic, emotional abuse, and narcissistic abuse marriage therapy in Melbourne, Palm Bay, Titusville, Cocoa, Rockledge, Merritt Island, Satellite Beach, Indian Harbour Beach, Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach, West Melbourne, Indialantic, Melbourne Beach, Grant-Valkaria, Malabar, Mims, Port St. John, Sarasota, Venice, North Port, Longboat Key, Nokomis, Osprey, Englewood, Laurel, and Pensacola.
Near Miami, Florida, Wisdom Within Counseling helps spouses loving an alcoholic and narcissist in Miami Gardens, Hialeah, Homestead, Coral Gables, Miami Beach, Doral, North Miami, North Miami Beach, Aventura, Pinecrest, Kendall, Key Biscayne, Cutler Bay, Palmetto Bay, Miami Lakes Opa-locka, Sweetwater, Miami Springs, Surfside, and Bal Harbour.
Throughout Florida, Wisdom Within Counseling helps women struggling with emotional abuse from an alcoholic partner in Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando, St. Petersburg, Tallahassee, Port St. Lucie, Fort Lauderdale, Cape Coral, Pembroke Pines, Hollywood, Miramar, Gainesville, and Coral Springs, Florida.
Couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can be very helpful when one spouse is an alcoholic and a narcissist.
Notably, the success of marriage therapy largely depends on the willingness and commitment of both partners. Taking part in couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling with the specialists can really help.
Meeting with an alcoholic, emotional abuse, and narcissistic abuse specialist and marriage therapist can provide a safe place to talk
Couples therapy provides a safe and structured space for both of you to express your concerns, emotions, and needs. Meeting with an alcoholic, emotional abuse, and narcissistic abuse specialist and marriage therapist allows for open communication without fear of judgment. You don’t have to be afraid of retaliation or your spouse’s anger in therapy. As well, couples therapy facilitates a more calm and productive dialogue.
Your Wisdom Within Counseling marriage therapist can help both of you gain a better understanding of each other’s perspectives, experiences, and challenges. Greater understanding fosters empathy, compassion, and a deeper insight. As well, couples therapy addresses underlying issues like childhood trauma contributing to the alcoholism and narcissism.
Working with an alcoholic, emotional abuse, and narcissistic abuse specialist and marriage therapist supports healthy boundaries
Establishing boundaries is key for a healthy marriage. Marital therapy can assist in setting and maintaining healthy boundaries within your relationship. At Wisdom Within Counseling, your an alcoholic, emotional abuse, and narcissistic abuse specialist and marriage therapist can guide both of you in creating clear expectations and limits. Healthy boundaries are particularly important when dealing with a narcissistic and alcoholic spouse.
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Couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can address co-occurring Issues. For instance, couples therapy can help explore the underlying factors that contribute to alcoholism and narcissism. To note, past traumas, low self-esteem, or unresolved conflicts can contribute to alcoholism. By addressing these co-occurring issues, marriage therapy can promote personal growth and healing for both of you.
Enhance communication skills with your alcoholic, emotional abuse, and narcissistic abuse specialist and marriage therapist
Effective communication is crucial in any healthy, long-lasting relationship. Marriage therapy can teach both of you healthy communication techniques, such as active listening. As well, you can learn about expressing emotions assertively, and resolving conflicts constructively. Improved communication can facilitate healthier interactions and reduce misunderstandings in the future.
Working with an alcoholic, emotional abuse, and narcissistic abuse specialist and marriage therapist encourages accountability. Couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can encourage the alcoholic and narcissistic spouse to take responsibility for their actions. Also, therapy helps the alcoholic seek treatment for their alcohol addiction. Your marriage therapist can help them understand the impact of their hurtful behaviors on the relationship and motivate them to make positive changes.
We are a team of alcoholic, emotional abuse, and narcissistic abuse specialists
It’s important to note that couples therapy may not be effective in cases where there is ongoing abuse and if the alcoholic and narcissistic spouse is unwilling to address their issues or seek help. In such cases, individual therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can offer support to the non-alcoholic spouse. Individual therapy and couples therapy can be combined when an alcoholic spouse is newly sober.
Ultimately, the goal of couples therapy with an alcoholic, emotional abuse, and narcissistic abuse specialist is to facilitate healthier communication, address underlying issues, and work towards a more functional and fulfilling relationship. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we have specialized training in dealing with alcoholism, complex trauma, addiction, and narcissism.
