15 Signs That Show Your Wife is an Emotional Bully

You should recognize 15 signs that show your wife is an emotional bully, especially for the sake of your marriage. If you can work through them, then great, if not, it’s time for another option.

She’s always criticizing you

Bullying takes a lot of forms. Constant criticism, or verbal abuse, might not affect everyone the same way, but it’s like chipping away at a stone, eventually a break will occur.

Shaming and belittling are insidious tools

It doesn’t matter what it takes, an emotional bully will find something that gets on your nerves and makes you feel like a lesser being. To control a person you need to find their soft spots, and this is one of the best ways to do it.

Passing the buck

In other words, she blames you for everything, even if it’s not your fault. It doesn’t matter if you had something to do with the situation, she’ll find a way to justify blaming you.

Apologizing without meaning it

Control comes in many different forms, and fake apologies are one of them. Even if they apologize and treat you well, they’ll use that later if they feel the need.

Eventually, you feel isolated

If you take note and find that your friends and family members can’t help you, then this is evidence that your wife has cut you off in one way or another. They can do this with people, money, anything.

Making you think that you’re the problem

Most of us have come to understand what gaslighting is. When a person makes you doubt everything you believe in and turn inward, it’s tough to resist thinking that you’re the problem.

Making you doubt yourself

It’s horrible to carry self-doubt since it creates a serious lack of trust in your own decisions. An emotional bully controls you by creating a sense of personal guilt that you can’t escape.

She ignores your boundaries

Forget all personal boundaries and anything resembling personal time. Why? Because it’s time for personal reflection that could chip away at the control that an emotional bully has established.

She wants attention all the time

She’ll want you to drop everything to pay attention to her, and that’s not negotiable. If they say jump, you don’t even get to ask how high.

She’ll stonewall you

The lack of emotions in this case will spur a lot of men to try and understand what’s going on, what’s wrong, and whether they can fix it. Strangely enough, it could mean that the emotional bully can’t, ironically, deal with their own emotions.

Stonewalling gets even worse as emotions are weaponized

Taking away all semblance of desire and affection is another tool in the arsenal of an emotional bully. When they start to reward you it becomes another method of control.

The manipulation used is weapons-grade

If you haven’t figured it out by this point, then you’re already lost. The control that a manipulative wife will exert goes so far as to tell her husband how to dress, how to act, and how to behave.

The threats that a bully can use are varied

A bully will do anything to keep their power over another person. In a marriage, the mention of divorce, taking their kids, or even ruining their husband could be threats that will scare many men.

A bully will instigate fights

It doesn’t matter what reason a manipulative wife can find, they’ll use it to start a fight. After they get you to respond it’s time to act like a victim and continue the gaslighting.

The passive-aggressive behavior is more indicative of their problem

What it means is that the bully has their own issues and doesn’t know how to talk about them. So they internalize their problems and then take it out on their husband.