Emotional Abuse: Is It Happening to You? 7 Signs & How You Can Recover

As a new TikTok trend gains steam, users jump on video to claim they’ve decided to gaslight their partner.

Their partner, who is in the same video, often immediately asks, “You’re going to gaslight me?” The partner who just claimed they were going to says something along the lines of, “What? No, I never said that.”

While humorous for some, for others, this scenario rings all too true. It’s a classic example of what gaslighting involves, which is a form of emotional abuse.
Emotional abuse can involve a variety of tactics, intentional or not.