In this episode of Ask Angela: Relationship Advice for Love After Trauma, Angela Amias responds to a listener who spent 15 years in a marriage marked by gaslighting—and is now left questioning whether he was truly the problem all along.

 

Angela explores:

 

• What gaslighting actually is, and why it’s so damaging

• How gaslighting erodes your ability to trust your own reality

• Why people who worry about being good are rarely the problem

• How internalized voices of abusive partners keep us stuck in cycles of self-doubt

• Why proving your goodness never leads to healing—and what to do instead

• Practical tools for reclaiming your inner trust and building a compassionate relationship with yourself

 

If you’ve ever struggled to trust yourself after emotional abuse, this episode offers grounded, hopeful guidance for finding your way back to your own heart.

 

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✫ Because love after trauma takes a different kind of wisdom—and you don’t have to figure it out alone.

 

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