Floating Leaf

I believe that the powerdynamics are well fed through this combination of an abusive person and a person being in a fragile state of for example low self-esteem (or something else, like passing through other emotionally draining times), actually just about any time in life when the self goes on low steam it´s probably very easy to get caught in this net, perhaps because the abuser has an outer (false) image that represents strenght somehow and maybe that is why anyone reach out to that kind of person. Abusers are experts in posing as that perfect support and the saviour. Of course that is only initially, they can´t really keep that image up but by the time the false image of strenght slips away they have already made themselves indispensable. Also, the way of distabilizing with constant flexing between being adorable and an asshole and to paralyze by making the other dependent while wiping out every little remnant of self esteem is surely helping to keep up control. Gah. *fumes*