Who am I? (The Impact of Verbal Abuse) “You are inconvenient.” The simple words echoed in my life and my behaviors for 12 or more years. These words compounded by dismissing behaviors, silent treatments, disdainful looks, and other cutting words made the statement over my life seem like truth written in stone. If it was true for him. This must have been true for everyone in my life. I was a burden. It didn’t take two parents speaking this way in my life. It took one. Words bu