1,745 Quotes About Abuse

It is funny how the person who’s been abusing you all of your life starts to complain of the self-destructive behaviors your brain has learnt to cope with when all they did was destroying you.

They drove through the small town. Theo could see little through the windshield, but his senses were alive. The three of them—the beater, the boy, and the dog—said nothing all the way home, anchored in the weight of their terrible love.

Beware of relationships that substitute intensity for emotional intimacy.

Abuse can take many forms. It always involves a boundary violation, although every boundary violation is not necessarily abuse.

Selfishness is self-absorption, self-seeking behaviour that either disregards the rights and needs of others or tramples them deliberately in favour of personal gain.

He's smiling brightly, but I don't really know what he's thinking, because you can't always believe smiles.

Boundaries protect the things that are of value to you. They keep you in alignment with what you have decided you want in life. That means the key to good boundaries is knowing what you want.

We must never perpetuate abuse by protecting the abuser. We must expose any abuse, in order to protect the abused.

Many of us find it hard to set boundaries and defend them because we fear doing so will cause rejection or abandonment. We may avoid confrontations to make things easier. We may feel guilt if we say no or if we think we might hurt someone's feelings. We fear boundaries will keep us from being loved.