“I'd lost myself in the abyss of someone else's tyranny...again.” — Cassandra Giovanni Copy Share Image
“HE ISN’T ABUSIVE BECAUSE HE IS ANGRY; HE’S ANGRY BECAUSE HE’S ABUSIVE.” — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Most of us knew in our bones that things with the world weren’t right, long before it became a crisis.” — Pernell Plath Meier Copy Share Image
“If your partner has ever humiliated you.. he can never respect you all over again ..” — Himmilicious Copy Share Image
“The quiet but inexorable breaking down of self-esteem is much more sinister - it’s violation of the soul.” — Rachel Abbott Copy Share Image
“She’d worn anxiety like a thick robe for so long that it was hard for her to take it off.” — Pernell Plath Meier Copy Share Image
“If you walked away from a toxic, negative, abusive, one-sided, dead-end low vibrational relationship or friendship — you won.” — Lalah Delia Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“Each time he came he would twist my defenceless body into a different pose, as if I were his very own doll” — Rachel Abbott Copy Share Image
“Narcissists are very retaliative if they believe another has achieved what they desire, exposed their insecurities, or refused to be under their… — Lorraine Nilon Copy Share Image
“Many neglected and abused children grow up to be adults who are afraid to take risks of striking out on their own.… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I cry, wondering how it was possible that I could have been so goddamn weak, so f*cking spineless. Without you around,… — Heather Demetrios Copy Share Image
But whether you stay or go, the critical decision you can make is to stop letting your partner distort the lens of… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“It is fine to commiserate with a man about his bad experience with a previous partner, but the instant he uses her… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“The scars from mental cruelty can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but are often not as… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Yes, indeed, I am the stuff, the prize property, the recaptured trophy he will put up on the mantelpiece, in a rage… — Kaimana Wolff Copy Share Image
“(a quote from a survivor) Information was key. Once you begin waking up to what has been happening around you the whole… — Shahida Arabi Copy Share Image
“In a verbally abusive relationship, the partner learns to tolerate abuse without realizing it and to lose self-esteem without realizing it. She… — Patricia Evans Copy Share Image
“Although the typical abusive man works to maintain a positive public image, it is true that some women have abusive partners who… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“You can have a pet zebra and put that zebra into a small cage every day and tell the zebra that you… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to… — George K. Simon Jr Copy Share Image
Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once. If he raises a fist; punches… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Somehow it felt familiar, an old story retold, the claws in my shoulder, my arms twisted behind my back, the drag down… — Kaimana Wolff Copy Share Image
“Outside of my professional life, I have known many couples over the years who had passion and electricity between them and who… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, no matter how hard we try for someone and hope that they will get better in time – they never do.… — Sijdah Hussain Copy Share Image
“The confusion of love with abuse is what allows abusers who kill their partners to make the absurd claim that they were… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Women may come to the recovery process to "fix" their relationships, but what they end up learning is how to rescue and… — Carol A Lambert Copy Share Image
“To make matters worse, everyone she talks to has a different opinion about the nature of his problem and what she should… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“IN ONE IMPORTANT WAY, an abusive man works like a magician: His tricks largely rely on getting you to look off in… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“ABUSIVE MEN COME in every personality type, arise from good childhoods and bad ones, are macho men or gentle, “liberated” men. No… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“YOUR ABUSIVE PARTNER DOESN’T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH HIS ANGER; HE HAS A PROBLEM WITH YOUR ANGER. One of the basic human… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“The woman knows from living with the abusive man that there are no simple answers. Friends say: “He’s mean.” But she knows… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“When a man’s face contorts in bitterness and hatred, he looks a little insane. When his mood changes from elated to assaultive… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Shout out to everyone transcending a mindset, mentality, desire, belief, emotion, habit, behavior or vibration, that no longer serves them.” — Lalah Delia Copy Share Image
“I am done looking for love where it doesn’t exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry… — Maggie Young Copy Share Image
“Don’t confuse “familiar” with “acceptable”. Toxic relationships can fool you like that.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“Embedded in their psyche was the story of what had happened to the world, and the boys felt glorious to be on… — Pernell Plath Meier Copy Share Image
