Johnny Depp Might Not Be Innocent, but He’s Right: Men Suffer from Abuse Too
Over the last few weeks, I barely peaked at the topic as the Internet was boiling at the defamation case against Amber Heard, Johnny Depp’s former wife. Everyone is talking about it, so it’s hard to keep away. And, it was just enough to realise that men suffer from abuse, just as women do, yet their cases’ don’t become as known to the external eyes because they’re not supposed to be weak, do they?
Men don’t talk about being abused by women. Yet, many of them have numerous childhood shortcomings that set them for failure in their adult relationships. Men, like women alike, when they grow up in unloving households, struggling with their emotions as they figure out life, end up in relationships where they sell themselves short.
Abuse is not solely physical. Most men are psychologically abused by women in toxic relationships, which they find hard to leave because they don’t feel they deserve better. These are men that lack self-confidence because their parents always push them harder, for more, telling them they always have to fight and prove themselves because that’s what men do. Men don’t whine.
These men are afraid to show their emotions and are often considered tough. Yet, they are…
