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Most of us knew in our bones that things with the world weren’t right, long before it became a crisis

She’d worn anxiety like a thick robe for so long that it was hard for her to take it off

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

True strength isn’t born, it’s made

He doesn’t like you to socialize, be it male or female friends and family members.

He loves spanking, choking or violent intimate moments when making out.

Sometimes we refuse to see how bad something is until it completely destroys us.

Never let someone who contributes so little to a relationship control so much of it.

The scars you can’t see are the hardest to heal.

I was a happy, confident, outgoing person once.

Don’t judge yourself by what others did to you.

It’s like one day you flipped a switch and became someone I never knew.

I trusted you but now your words mean nothing to me, because your actions spoke the truth.

A healthy relationship doesn’t drag you down. It inspires you to be better.

The moment that you start to wonder if you deserve better, you do.

Mental abuse is much more painful than physical abuse because you are consumed by your own thoughts.

A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dream, or your dignity.

Never make yourself feel like nothing to make someone else feel like everything.

You’re not a real man if you abuse women.

At any given moment you have the power to say, “This is not how the story is going to end.”

When I was a child I was afraid of ghosts. As I grew up I realized people are more scary.

I am in an emotionally abusive relationship but I don’t know how to leave because he needs me.

Do not allow him—the abuser—to tell you who you are or take the blame for his actions.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength

Be gentle with your past selves for doing what they had to do to get through it

When a toxic person can no longer control you, they will try to control how others see you. The misinformation will seem unfair but rise above it, trusting that others will eventually see the truth, just as you did

Revenge is surviving, getting out, and being a better person than you were, and breaking the cycle

Just because it’s explainable, doesn’t mean it’s excusable

We must send a message across the world that there is no disgrace in being a survivor of sexual violence—the shame is on the aggressor.

Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment

I’m still coping with my trauma, but coping by trying to find different ways to heal it rather than hide it

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time

The remedy for life’s broken pieces is not classes, workshops, or books. Don’t try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.

Music is like my secret garden. It’s where I heal myself from every pain that I feel. It’s like a therapy

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships—in other words, in families—the last place we would want or expect to find violence

Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don’t address it. Until it happens to celebrities

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself

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There is no safe way to remain in a relationship with a person who has no conscience. The only solution is to escape.

You’re in a relationship to be happy, to smile, to laugh, and to make good memories. Not to be constantly upset, to feel hurt, and to cry.

There’s nothing worse than being used, except for denying it and allowing it to continue.

Just because someone desires you, does not mean that they value you.

You can’t change someone who doesn’t see an issue in their actions.

Don’t let your loyalty become slavery. If they don’t appreciate what you bring to the table, then let them eat alone.

Stop telling yourself you can fix him. He’s been this way for a long, long time and he doesn’t intend to change. Save yourself instead, get out while there’s still time.

Stay away from people who can’t take responsibility for their actions and who make you feel bad for being angry at them when they do you wrong.

A woman should never invest in a relationship she wouldn’t want for her daughter.

Being single and happy is better than being sad and afraid in an abusive relationship.

There is no safe way to remain in an abusive relationship with a person who has no conscience. The only solution is to escape.

The problem is women think he will change, he won’t. And men make the mistake of thinking she will never leave, she will.

At any given moment you have the power to say, “This is not how the story is going to end.”

You’re not broken. Someone who didn’t love you convinced you that you are.

Do you feel alone in your relationship? Abusers isolate their partner from friends and family, and make them dependent financially, socially, and physically.

If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Poisonous relationships can alter our perception. You can spend many years thinking you’re worthless, you’re unappreciated.

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

Suicide isn’t cowardly, wanna know what’s cowardly? Treating someone so badly that they want to end their life

Emotional abuse is the leading reason of suicide victims.

A woman should never invest in a relationship she wouldn’t want for her daughter, nor allow any man to treat her in a way she could scold her son for.

The scars you can’t see are the hardest to heal.

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than to hurt yourself putting it back together.

Sometimes we survive by forgetting.

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Being single is better than being lied to, cheated on and disrespected.

Never forget that walking away from something unhealthy is brave even if you stumble a little on your way out the door.

When someone isn’t treating you right, no matter how much you love them, you’ve got to love yourself more and walk away.

Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it’s the place where we find the deepest heartache.

Poisonous relationships can alter our perception. You can spend many years thinking you’re worthless… but you’re not worthless, you’re unappreciated.

Emotional abuse is the silent marriage killer.

I used to be a happy person who had plans and dreams. The emotional and verbal abuse wore me down. I felt exhausted, numb and disoriented about who I was. I stopped thinking and believing for myself. I lost hope for a better life.

It’s hard to look for the light when your lost in darkness.

He’s constantly putting me down, labeling me, mocking or making fun of me. It’s his way of staying in control.

Bruises heal, but you don’t forget words and emotions, how an abuser makes you feel about yourself.

A healthy relationship doesn’t drag you down. It inspires to be better.

A house where a woman is unsafe is not a home.

Sometimes just thinking about something is enough to hurt you all over again.

Do you feel better now as she falls to the ground?

The scars from mental cruelty can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but are often not as obvious.

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He makes me feel ugly, stupid, small. Like I don’t matter, won’t amount to anything, or like I’m not worthy of being loved.

Psychological invalidation is one of the most lethal forms of emotional abuse. It kills confidence, creativity and individuality.

He didn’t have to hit me to leave a scar.

No one deserves to be treated like trash, especially not by the person you love.

Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone that you love and think loves you in return.

Standing alone is better than standing with people who hurt you.

If he makes you lose your family, lose your friends, lose your confidence, lose your self-esteem, or lose your happiness, then you need to lose him.

Get out now! Abuse only gets worse over time. No one deserves to be treated like dirt. No one.

You’re in a relationship to be happy, to smile, to laugh, and to make good memories. Not to be constantly upset, to feel hurt, and to cry.

The moment that you start to wonder if you deserve better, you do.

Peace is not just mere absence of violence

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships – in other words, in families – the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

Right now, I’m following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

Do not sit back and take it. Pack your things and leave.

It is better to break your own heart by leaving an abusive relationship, rather than having that person breaking your heart every day.

Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive. When someone enters the pain and hears the screams healing can begin.

Stop telling yourself you can fix him. He’s been this way for a long, long time and he doesn’t intend to change. Save yourself instead, get out while there’s still time.

You can’t change someone who doesn’t see an issue in their actions.

Losing yourself in loving another can make you forget that you’re special too.

It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.

It is easier to build up a child that it is to repair an adult.

You survived the abuse. You’re going to survive the recovery.

Do you feel alone in your relationship? Abusers isolate their partner from friends and family, and make them dependent financially, socially, and physically.

A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dream, or your dignity.

Don’t let others define you or they might pick the worst word in the dictionary.

And how high can you fly with broken wings?

One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.