#abuse

An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#definitions #humor #substance-abuse #humor

More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people". ↗

— Julie Klam

#animals #dog #protection #love

This is my first real memory of James. In every memory before that, he’s just a flash of color, a warm body with a blurred face, a comforting voice begging me not to die. When he planted himself between our father and me that day, an eight-year-old with small fists clenched at his sides, I think I fell in love with my brother. ↗

— Kate Avelynn

#issues #new-adult #young-adult #love

Become your own soulmate. Then you'll always have someone watching your back, and you'll always have someone who loves you. ↗

— Rebecca O'Donnell

#hope #incest #insecurity #memoir #love

If you don't start playing by my rules, you'll be lucky to be licking stamps in some lowly, legal aid office. ↗

— Linda Pohl

#lawyers #love #power #romance #secret

I'd lost myself in the abyss of someone else's tyranny...again. ↗

— Cassandra Giovanni

#abusive-relationships #bullying #love #romance #star-crossed-lovers

I know who you are...I've fallen hard for that person, and I sure as hell am not going to let you fade into your past. ↗

— Cassandra Giovanni

#love-story #romance #love

She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #marriage #love

To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpertrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest. ↗

— Flora Jessop

#inspirational #inspirational

Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in the environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems in basic trust, autonomy, and initiative. She approaches the task of early adulthood――establishing independence and intimacy――burdened by major impairments in self-care, in cognition and in memory, in identity, and in the capacity to form stable relationships. She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she reencounters the trauma. ↗

— Judith Lewis Herman

#childhood-suffering #childhood-trauma #freedom