Love without compassion is possessive, controlling, and dangerous. The simplest definition of emotionally abusive behavior is anything that intentionally hurts the feelings of another person. Since almost everyone in intimate relationships does that at some time or other in the heat of an argument, emotionally abusive behavior must be distinguished from an emotionally abusive relationship, which is more than the sum of emotionally abusive behaviors. Listen to this Episode as we talk about how to identify and cope with Emotional abuse.