Why Victims of Abuse Feign Happiness

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It’s hard to admit that you’re in an abusive relationship to yourself, let alone to other people. Embarrassment courses through you as you feel stupid for ending up in that situation, even though you know you’re not, and you don’t want others to see you in that way, or even worse to see you as weak and vulnerable. It’s hard enough to understand what is going on in a relationship that you’re being gaslit in, where you’re being…