Trump Caught Being A Major A**hole To Melania Again

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100. I am sorry you don't know what emotional abuse looks like.

Actually, I'm not sorry you don't recognize it, because that means you likely have never experienced it, and I wouldn't wish emotional abuse on anyone. I do wish you could see your way to empathy without having direct experience. But if you can't, that's on you.

Living with a narcissist requires a form of Stockholm Syndrome. It's a survival strategy. Abuse rarely looks like something out of a 1980s PSA. Most abusers are bright enough to know they can't leave marks, especially when their target is someone who is in the public eye. Plus, there's a significant percentage of abusers who get off on the intangible forms -- control, financial manipulation and psychological brainwashing -- far more than they get off on physical or sexual assault.

I don't forgive anyone's voluntary bad behavior - especially not the racist birtherism - but look, if she was in full agreement, don't you think she'd be doing everything she could to look supportive, instead of this exceptionally minimal, half-hearted "if you insist" act? She's not stupid, and she knows that the office of the First Lady comes with a degree of soft power. She made that statement once.