You deserve respect.

With this fully expanded and updated third edition of the bestselling classic, you find out why verbal abuse is even more widespread than ever, and ways to deal with it. You’ll receive more of the answers you need to recognize abuse when it happens, respond to abusers securely and appropriately, and most important, lead a more happy, healthier life.

In two all-new chapters, Evans reveals the Outside Stresses driving the rise in verbal abuse – and shows you how you are able to mitigate the about The Verbally Abusive Relationship, Expanded Third Model: How exactly to recognize it and how to respond damaging effects on your own relationships. She also outlines the Degrees of Abuse that characterize this sort of behavior – from subtle, insidious put-downs that may erode your self-esteem to full-out tantrums of name-calling, screaming, and intimidating that can escalate into physical abuse.

Drawing from a huge selection of real situations experienced by real people like everyone else, Evans provides strategies, sample scripts, and action plans designed to help you cope with the misuse – as well as the abuser.

This timely new edition from the Verbally Abusive Relationship puts you on the road to recognizing and giving an answer to verbal abuse, one crucial step at the same time!