Habits Quote by Lundy Bancroft

“psychological abusers damage others – not out of impaired judgement – but because they enjoy the control they gain from abusing people.”

— Shannon Thomas

“An abuser can be thought of not as a man who is a "deviant," but rather as one who learned his society's lessons too…

— Lundy Bancroft

“ABUSIVE MEN COME in every personality type, arise from good childhoods and bad ones, are macho men or gentle, “liberated” men. No psychological test…

— Lundy Bancroft

“Perpetrators of abuse often make their victims believe that they are somehow responsible for their own abuse. Such misplaced notions shift the blame of…

— Mallika Nawal

I have a theory that all abuse, no matter what kind of abuse it is, is foremost an assault on the mind.

— Tara Westover

“Abuse is not his goal, but control is, and he finds himself using abuse to gain the control he feels he has a right…

— Lundy Bancroft

When you go through abuse - the behavior - what happens is all behavior stems from faulty belief.

— Paula White

“Rather than being insecure, psychological abusers are easily offended, consumed with themselves, and want things just their way.   Each”

— Shannon Thomas

“Psychological abusers do not realize that people authentically grown weary of their ridiculousness, find recovery from the abuse, and eventually move on without looking…

— Shannon Thomas

When you abuse someone, you limit their perspective, and you trap them in your view of them or your view of the world.

— Tara Westover

“Beating yourself up over every perceived mistake is the work of an internal abuser who must be restrained and reformed.”

— Bryant McGill

Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once.

— Lundy Bancroft