Staying eight years in an emotionally and mentally abusive marriage with a man from Egypt, Jade shares a bit more about her own story. What makes men from Egypt and the Middle East different? What we should pay attention to when starting a relationship and why is self-love the ultimate healing you can get?
This is what we chat about in this episode with Jade Louise Tibbles, who is supporting women who have lost themselves in marriages to men from Egypt & The Middle East.
Jade knows from her own experience what a woman goes through when in an emotionally abusive relationship. She shares how she felt embarrassed when her husband started changing for the worse, the fear of being seen as a failure while being stuck and unable to take the next step. She talks about her hopes that he will change, his promises and how his changing for a short while yet always bouncing back to his abusive ways led her to stay with him for eight years.
We chat about how Jade started realizing that she was losing herself. The turning point came when a series of small things made her wake up and accept what was happening in her reality.
Jade says that people in Egypt have a very strong culture with strong religious beliefs engrained in people’s lives, which makes the men from there and the Middle East very unique and different in their own ways. She talks about the mental and emotional manipulation that is so subtle that most men don’t even realize what they are doing.
But what to do when you are at the beginning of a relationship with a man from Egypt or the Middle East? Jade shares what she tells the women she works with: question why you’re doing anything. Whenever you’re doing anything in the relationship, ask yourself, why are you doing it? We dig deeper into this while Jade shares her tips on what to pay attention to, as well as where to start once you realize you’re in an abusive relationship.
We also pondered about those voices in our head that make things hard for us, how to start noticing our thoughts and being aware of them while starting to question them. We chat about the way out: self-discovery and self-love, as loving ourselves is the purest love we can ever receive.
So, if you want to get a new perspective about being in an abusive relationship, start questioning your thinking while heading for a new brighter future or just hear an inspiring chat, pop in those headphones and choose to Screw Being Unhappy, even if it is one tiny step a day!
