What do you feel is worse?

Having been in both type of relationships in the past, from my childhood until I was 39. I have to agree that mental abuse is more damaging to the phsychololic aspects of a person, than physical abuse. While I still bristle if someone gets physical around me, it is often the trauma of the past mental abuse that gets me down and relives the old state of being abused. It was in my opinion way more impactive on my present life. The bruises healed, but the mind doesn't forget. Any abusive relationship be considered toxic and should be broken off.

Sweetie I went through both in my used to be Marriage The first year it was Physical and then when he got caught out on it for the next 20 Years it was Mental abuse Please do not say why did I stay in it I had a bad Childhood and I was scared of People specially Men, I never had the Strength to put an end to it until I was diagnosed with my Illness he would have ended up killing me and I wanted out and have a Life, my Kids where grown and that is when it was over It was a tough Divorce and had many affects on my Illness but I got there I now have a wonderful who over the last 5 years has taught me that not every Man is awful and what love really is People always say "So why not get out of it then" Unless you are in that position you really do not know how hard and down grading it is specially when you are told all the time no one else would have you because your Body is ruined with marks from Child Birth, when you are told you are no one special and no one would care for you It is very hard, your mind is being played with in a very clever way

Mental abuse and physical abuse are both very serious problems. A person's body and spirit can be battered and broken. The physical wounds can repair themselves and there may not be any physical scars but the mental damage is devastating. The person you love and depend on is hurting you in very bad ways. If it goes on for any length of time and there is no help or support and you eventually manage to run away, I don't believe a person ever recovers. Something is broken inside. If not broken, severely damaged, sometimes irrepairably.

I believe that any kind of abuse is serious and should not be tolerated. Therefore, I agree with you. I think that mental abuse has long term negative side effects whereas physical abuse (which should never be allowed)is short term. That's just my two cents.

Physical abuse, you can recover from, mental abuse scars and never heals and the slightest thing can reopen the scars and bring it all back. I think both are big issues and come with their own long term after effects but mental abuse is the more serious. I was in a relationship with both pysical and mental abuse, and it is the mental abuse that has stayed with me over the years rather than the physical.

I think metal abuse is worse than physical abuse.A wound by physical abuse can heal after a few day,but metal hurt may cost years to get over or might won't get over forever.Mental abuse is like deeper hurt,it takes much more to heal.