The Abuse You Don’t See Until You’re Free

How covert abuse traps you in plain sight — and the first step to reclaiming your freedom is learning to trust your own decisions again.

You don’t spot it when you’re in it.
You call it help. You call it family. You call it therapy.

You only start calling it what it really is when the air hits your lungs for the first time in years.

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The Hook They Bury the Deepest

Here’s the thing about covert abuse: you can’t measure it while it’s happening. There’s no bruise to show your friends. No broken bone to point to. The damage is in how your brain starts narrating the world to you — their voice inside your head telling you what’s safe, what’s dangerous, what’s true, what’s “all in your head.”