Emotional Abuse Quotes
Emotional Abuse Quote of the day
To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.
Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.
Emotional abuse is like being continuously kicked in the shins. It can be worse than getting one punch in the face, and it cements itself.
My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
To deny someone's feelings or experiences it to literally deny their reality.
Be alert! Some people have problems. Don't let them be your problem and don't ever allow their problems to infect you through their words and actions! Stay happy!
But it's up to us...' he said softly. 'it's up to us not to lose this.
I'm the girl who never gets angry and never wants anything, and that's why my family is still alive.
It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.
I think this point is so important, I'm going to repeat it: You should never listen to criticism that is primarily intended to wound, even if it contains more than a grain of truth.
Some scars don't hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again.
She looked at him like it physically hurt her not to speak, and yet she stayed silent.
The past is behind us, " said Boudicca, "but the difficulty there is we keep looking over our shoulders.
Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring.
The more a child is abused, the more the child uses his abilities to anticipate, manage, prevent, dismantle, and challenge the abusing ways of his parents.
Sometimes, it is how you shine in the darkness during other people's misery that is remembered more than anything you could have said or done when you have suffered just as much.
Abuse grows from attitudes and values, not feelings. The roots are ownership, the trunk is entitlement, and the branches are control.
A child that’s being abused by its parents doesn’t stop loving its parents, it stops loving itself.
An emotionally abusive relationship, in very simplistic terms, is much like standing up in a too hot bath and sinking back in so as not to feel so dizzy.
If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.
The only people that can't handle the truth are those that suffer so much anxiety that they will live in denial, in order to prevent their illusion from being destroyed and feeling more anxiety.
Staying in an unhealthy relationship that robs you of peace of mind, is not being loyal. It is choosing to hurt yourself mentally, emotionally and sometimes, physically.
After a victim is made to participate in an act of evil, the people in charge put a lot of energy into convincing the child or adult that he or she is evil and a perpetrator rather than a victim.p324