Gaslighting and reactive abuse are very important topics to know and understand.

So just what is reactive abuse?

It’s basically when you react to abuse. When you react to gaslighting, manipulation, the silent treatment or other abusive tactics, the way you react to it is reactive abuse. How you handle yourself is why it’s called reactive abuse. If someone is giving you abuse and you react to it in a negative way — passive aggressively, yelling, giving the…