The Effect of Bullying upon Love
When a man wants a woman to do something for him, no matter what it is, he has the choice between two principally different strategies.
When a man wants a woman to do something for him, no matter what it is, he has the choice between two principally different strategies.
- He bullies her to do it using pressure, threat, anger, extortion or intimidation.
- He treats her so well, that she cares and loves him enough to do it by her own good will.
The starting point for both strategies is the relationship deal, in which they have agreed to fulfill each other's needs.
When the man's focus is selfish, then he chooses the first strategy. His priority is to ascertain, that he gets his needs met by applying whatever power he has, be it physical strength, situational or financial advantage. As far as he does give something back to the woman, he restricts it to just as little as he believes is enough to make her function.
When the man's focus is based upon trust and appreciation, then he chooses the second strategy. He makes efforts to earn the woman's love and care, he gives first, because he trusts her, that the more he gives, the more he will get in return. With this strategy, love, attachment, bonding grows stronger over time.
Of course, no woman would consciously decide to become a selfish man's commodity, if she would notice, that this is his goal, before it is too late. But there are reasons, why a woman can temporarily be in a relationship, where she is bullied.
When the man's focus is selfish, then he chooses the first strategy. His priority is to ascertain, that he gets his needs met by applying whatever power he has, be it physical strength, situational or financial advantage. As far as he does give something back to the woman, he restricts it to just as little as he believes is enough to make her function.
When the man's focus is based upon trust and appreciation, then he chooses the second strategy. He makes efforts to earn the woman's love and care, he gives first, because he trusts her, that the more he gives, the more he will get in return. With this strategy, love, attachment, bonding grows stronger over time.
Of course, no woman would consciously decide to become a selfish man's commodity, if she would notice, that this is his goal, before it is too late. But there are reasons, why a woman can temporarily be in a relationship, where she is bullied.
- The man fulfills the woman's needs in one aspect, like sharing activities of traveling and attending cultural events. His bullying does not drive her away immediately, because she attempts to put up with it, as long as her resilience lasts.
- The man starts like a nice man as described in entry 285 about the abuse-hoovering cycle. He only converts into the bullying guy after she had already fallen in love with the apparently kind and caring man.
- She has become afflicted with the jerk attachment syndrome as describe in entry 268.
So there is the situation, that a woman by mistake loves an unworthy man, who bullies her. She can rationally come to the conclusion, that he is unworthy, she could even take the decision to end the relationship in spite of her fatal love. But she cannot just decide to stop loving him as a consequence of her insight, that he does not deserve her love.
Fortunately for her, he himself helps her to get out of the trap, and he is often oblivious of this. Every time, when he hurts her, and it is not accidentally but by his choice of selfish behavior, the pain she feels decreases her love. Being bullied to be a commodity is a powerful love killer and when she is cured of her misplaced love, she is free to end the relationship and feel relief.
A woman can go through this experience either with a jerk and psychopath or with an emotional moron. But there is one huge difference.
The jerk knows, that he can bully a woman to serve as a commodity only for a limited time. After that time, he has to move on and find another victim and he has no conscience to stop him. The jerk is not bothered, what the woman thinks or feels, as long as he gets, what he wants.
The emotional moron has no clue, what is going on. As long as the woman does, what he wants, everything seems ok for him. He is oblivious of the difference between a woman acting by her own benevolent choice or by intimidation, and he has no clue, that his bullying is a love killer. His own behavior could even shock him, were he able to get aware of the woman's real agony.
The emotional moron is misguided by a logical error. He believes that when the woman yields to his bullying and does or allows without resistance, what he wants, she has automatically changed her mind to agree with his entitlement delusion. He believes, that he is able to coerce her to think, what he wants her to think. He does not consider his behavior as bullying, but as doing her a favor against her resistance. He believes to improve her cognition and to teach her her appropriate role in his life. He has not perception, that she feels hurt by being bullied and dominated.
