The healthy man does not torture others. Generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. – Carl Jung
Love is about giving freedom and power, not about gaining control or possession.
From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, I survived.
Growing up in a home of abuse, you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. It’s a strange feeling. You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad, where you either love or hate them, but that’s not how people are. – Trevor Noah
I was heart broken, scared, I had a lot of anxiety, I was worried, I felt weak, and I had no idea how I was ever going to come up with the strength. But I just closed my eyes, and took a blind leap. I knew I had to get out of there.
One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. – Leo Tolstoy
Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.
When you are with someone who is never pleased, it is time to stop trying to please him.
Trust is only a five letter word but it can be misused in so many different ways.
Find the strength inside yourself to value your own worth more than staying with someone who only keeps you down.
Domestic violence is frequently excused when alcohol and other substances are involved. – Asa Don Brown
You can spend a lifetime trying to forget a few minutes of your childhood.
Nothing can drive one closer to his own insanity than a haunting memory refusing its own death.
The walls between you and I always pushed us apart. It left nothing but scars fight after fight. And I’m done with you not treating me right.
Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When someone enters the pain and hears the screams healing can begin.
Never let a man put his hands on you without your permission. – Melda Beaty
Here I stand Empty hands, wishing my wrists were bleeding to stop the pain from the beatings.
Survivors of any and all abuse become very good at anticipating mood of others, looks, actions, all of it in an effort to survive. Believing that if we can be agreeable, be compliant and loving, do things how they want, that we will be safe. This becomes our way of life.
Never let someone who contributes so little to a relationship control so much of it.
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