Instead, it’s a carefully chosen mask to ignore or irritate you, take personal jabs at you, and make you feel “less than” in any way that hurts.

Some people are undeniably spacey, but when it comes to covertly abusive people, obliviousness is rarely an authentic trait. The following are five common cloaks that could be concealing your partner’s covert abuse. The best protection against this twisted abuse is to learn how these manipulators disguise their harmful objectives, so you can peel back the layers of deceit and discover who they really are-or aren’t. This means that if your partner’s being abusive, you might not only fail to see any of the harm they’re causing you, you might actually love them more for it. But subtlety isn’t the only danger: covert abuse tactics also masquerade as other behaviors, even healthy ones. If you’re the target, you won’t see any glaring warning signs-there are none.

Written by Writer’s Corps member Emily DeSanctisĬovert abuse is easy to miss.

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