97 Quotes About Abusive-relationships

The hardest part of being in an emotionally abusive relationship, it's actually admitting you're in one.

I was nervous when I approached him about certain topics (...) [I] felta misunderstood for most of our relationship. He made me doubt my sanity and my intelligence. I stayed for as longer as I did because I hoped he would change

You don't know what's right or wrong. You've been told 'you're crazy' 'you´re overreacting' so many times you started to believe that's the truth

It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.

I am done looking for love where it doesn’t exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.

I loved them so much that I used to drive myself crazy trying to figure out why they were hurting... Why they betrayed me so easily... What was happening in their life that would lead them to treat me so abusively... Then, in a moment of clarity, I realized I'm not the "Narcissist Whisperer" and freed myself from that toxic behavior.

Abusive relationships exist because they provide enough rations of warmth, laughter, and affection to clutch onto like a security blanket in the heap of degradation. The good times are the initial euphoria that keeps addicts draining their wallets for toxic substances to inject into their veins. Scraps of love are food for an abusive relationship.

The scars from mental cruelty can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but are often not asobvious. In fact, even among women who have experienced violence from a partner, half or more report that the man’s emotional abuse is what is causing them the greatest harm.

The quiet but inexorable breaking down of self-esteem is much more sinister - it’s violation of the soul.