And how high can you fly with broken wings?
As painful as it is to admit that we are being abused, it is even more painful to come to the conclusion that the person we love is someone we cannot afford to be around.
Often things are as bad as they seem. – Sheldon Kopp
Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.
It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that they’re going on.
Leaving an abusive partner is a very difficult thing to do. It frequently feels like you are failing, or destroying your family, or not trying to work things out, or not giving your partner a second chance.
Just because the scars have healed, doesn’t mean that the pain has.
Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?
Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.
You have the right to your own ideas and opinions, to make your own decisions, and to have things go your way at times. Stand up for those rights. – Beverly Engel
Do not allow him-the abuser-to tell you who you are or take the blame for his actions.
Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more. – Salma Hayek
After a series of traumas, one can lose the capacity to feel fear appropriately.
It’s never too late to do the right thing.
If you can’t be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have… escaped.
If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational. – Salma Hayek
When it comes to abuse, you believe there’s no way out. There is always help. There is always a way out.
You can get out.
When you allow yourself to be dominated by someone else, you begin to lose respect for yourself.
I am living in hell from one day to the next. But there is nothing I can do to escape. I don’t know where I would go if I did. I feel utterly powerless, and that feeling is my prison. I entered of my own free will, I locked the door, and I threw away the key. – Haruki Murakami
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