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I Think Verbal Abuse Is Just As Bad As Physical Abuse

At what point do you give up on a verbally abusive person? Knowing they have a mental illness, does this mean they don't mean to be abusive? When do you stop? After ten years? Thirty? How much is too much.

What if this is one of your own children? Are you obliged to accept it as parental duty?

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SagePoet · 70-79, M

Tough situation. One of my roommates is verbally abusive. He has a mental illness. I know how to to him. It's not an easy situation. And a child no less, can't turn your back on a child. I think you need to learn and set boundaries so you can deal with them but not accept the verbal pounding that's inevitable.

Serenitree · F

@SagePoet She is a woman in her fifties. I have taken it since she was in her teens. Each time saying nothing. Each time coming away crying. Never leaving until I'm dismissed by being told to get the hell out. Thursday evening, I came away angry, instead of sad. I discovered that she isn't just abusive, she makes up stories to beat me with. Then when I confront the person she told me the story about, it makes them cry, because she is just as abusive to them and makes up stories about me, to hurt them.

I don't want to walk away, but, I can't take anymore.