1,745 Quotes About Abuse

Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.

There is tremendous trauma in the betrayal caused by a perpetual liar as they repeatedly commit psychological abuse.

Free will? Either you follow the word of God, or you'll be punished with eternal hellfire. That's the same kind of "choice" an abuse boyfriend gives you: 'Either you do exactly what I say, or I'll beat the shit out of you.

I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.

I hope you see what you've done to me.

Even after the bruises disappear, the scars inside you are still there.

The bottom line was that I was in an abusive relationship.

Gaslighting qualifies as a form of emotional abuse that involves denying a person’s experience and making statements, such as “that never happened,” “you’re too sensitive,” or “this isn’t that big a deal.

When I feel myself slipping to the darkness of my past, I’ll close my eyes and remember this. Remember Jackson.