I love the way she survived. Survival looked good on her. There were no dark marks under her eyes. Maybe deep inside, but I liked the way she looked through them and laughed at life. She did it gracefully. She’d walk over glass and through fire, but still smiled. And honestly, I’m not interested in…
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Abuse manipulates and twists a child’s natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can’t afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she’s being abused—pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So…
Fighting became a way of life and seemed perfectly normal for your family.
Never do business or socialize with someone whom you catch in a lie under any circumstances. After all, if he’s comfortable lying, he’s probably also comfortable doing a lot worse things too.
What is worse than having one narcissist in your life? The answer is being co-dependent on that narcissist.
you need to come to a place where you value yourself more than your partner or the relationship.
Manipulators use diversion tactics such as, not giving a straight answer or steering the conversation to another topic.
After they have made you insecure enough to cling to them and raise every single insecurity you have, they will comfort you and reassure you that they are with you. And thus your dependency is increased, along with the power they have over you.
The thing about abusers is that along with power, they only recognize a relationship that is 100% on their own terms.
But these people cross the line when they abuse their capacity for persuasion for their selfish benefit, especially when it's at the expense of the relationship.
In toxic relationships, not only does your partner bring you down a lot. You must understand that without any kind of moral support there is no relationship at all.
They are deadly people and do not deserve access into your life, unless they demonstrate the willingness and the ability to change.
Toxic people are very destructive; they are emotional vampires. Your interactions with them will always leave you drained and exhausted. They are mood changers; they suck a life out of you. Toxic People are a vehicle of heaviness and depression.
Not all toxic people are cruel and uncaring. Some of them love us dearly. Many of them have good intentions. Most are simply toxic to our being simply because their needs and way of existing force us to compromise ourselves and our happiness. They aren't inherently bad people, but they aren't the ri…
You don't ever have to feel guilty about removing toxic people from your life...You don't have to make room for people who cause you pain or make you feel small.
Don't judge yourself by what others did to you.
You don’t have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
Poisonous relationships can alter our perception. You can spend many years thinking you’re worthless. But you’re not worthless. You’re under-appreciated.
Toxic relationships not only make us unhappy; they corrupt our attitudes and dispositions in ways that undermine healthier relationships and prevent us from realizing how much better things can be.