An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

Growing up in a home of abuse, you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. It’s a strange feeling.

As he had kissed her neck, she could not repress the feeling she was a lamb making time with a wolf.

Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.

Please don’t think I’m bad too.” From the other innermost part of him, the secret animal that prowls in some men was a raging wolf ready to kill. The battle line within the man had...

People that hurt others, only act on a pain they feel themselves.

The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to safeguard against its abuse....

Weird? Absurd? That’s how it seemed to me. I had these forces, these compunctions, these alternative personalities inside me, driving me. It was like being a jack-in-the-box and I was unsure which personality was going...

Wel , in the absence of other options, gold will have to do.

Memories demand attention, and these memories will have teeth.

Life’s just another blowjob. And just because I let you cum in my mouth, doesn’t mean I’m going to swallow it!” – excerpt from: freefalling

Child abuse and neglect is sometimes the result of a parent who reaches the end of their frustration and tolerance level. If we can give parents tools to deal with an infant who is particularly...

Why are women so ungenerous to other women? Is it because we have been tokens for so long? Or is there a deeper animosity we owe it to ourselves to explore?A publisher…couldn’t understand why women...

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

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

He asks, in a softer voice, “Does your arm still hurt?”You touch it with your hand. The big ache is gone, leaving only the little, underneath ache that will gather and swell against the bone....

Patrice had long since buried the particulars of events so painful that they caused her to resolve only to see good. With such a stance, such as dissociative split, she could walk with evil and...

I have learned that I will not change the world, Jesus will do that. I can however, change the world for one person. I can change the world for fourteen little girls and for four...

cure” partner abuse.

If you are so in touch with your feelings from your abusive childhood, then you should know what abuse feels like. You should be able to remember how miserable it was to be cut down...

When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for those who are hungry, for those who have no schools,...

Deep connection is the antidote to madness.

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

If he’s in for life, he’s safe. He can’t abuse her. She is in control of the relationship.

But for a mother who was submissive to the degree my mother was, it was OK to kill girls. For a father like mine, it was normal to chop off his daughters hair with sheep...

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

I don’t know of any other occupation so susceptible to so many abuses.

the abuser’s desire to abuse is not created by the child – it is there before the child appears

mummy bags”, subjected to insulin-induced hypoglycemic comas, forced into seizures with massive doses of the stimulant Metrazol, injected with camphor, drugged into three-week comas with barbiturates and tranquilizers, involuntarily sterilized, and surgically mutilated. Rape by...

Overcoming abuse doesn’t just happen, It takes positive steps everyday. Let today be the day you start to move forward.

An insult bestowed on your interior and exterior personality; for causes beyond control, kills you innumerably, till the last breath.

I am saying that very clearly. In some cases, evidence was not put in the court. In other cases, agreements were made between lawyers not to put the case to the court at all, particularly...

A leader without a clear vision and plans only abuses his power because visions, dreams and plans are the fulcrum along which the loads of success will spine by your own efforts. And where power...

When the gates of mockery and abuse is opened, the heart becomes a shock absorber

I’m not a victim. I’m not a survivor. I’m a fighter.

But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.

Yes, indeed, I am the stuff, the prize property, the recaptured trophy he will put up on the mantelpiece, in a rage every time I move a millimeter or look less polished, less tarted up...

Stop falling for those who won’t raise you up in the future.

How long now, Catiline, will you abuse our patience?

HE ISN’T ABUSIVE BECAUSE HE IS ANGRY; HE’S ANGRY BECAUSE HE’S ABUSIVE.

Denial can be a most useful, temporary shield. Unfortunately, such flimsy armor will not last a lifetime. It is best to face your past, and do so quickly, before your past returns to face you.”—...

Our federal laws do not need to reach each and every minor, inadvertent, and harmless computer abuse,

Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. This is one of the main problems in dysfunctional relationships. The more mature and rational you are the...

… Other students lived on campus and got drunk at parties. Other students dated and graduated and got married and led normal lives. She wanted to marry an ex-con and pretend being kidnapped had been...

I strongly believe that love is the answer and that it can mend even the deepest unseen wounds. Love can heal, love can console, love can strengthen, and yes, love can make change.

We don’t look at the stars in the universe and say how tragic they are, how bruised they are, even though that is what they are. We look at them and speak of the beauty...

Love is not a word or an idea or even a place to go to or a thing to strive for. It is not something to grasp and smother and mold and change. It cannot...

Many professionals have to sign gagging clauses or face the sack if they speak out. The social worker and therapist was familiar with the scare that revelation brings to the survivor. […]We are in this...

When I was cooking I enjoyed a sense of being ‘out’ of myself. The action of dicing vegetables and warming oil made my hands tingle and my thoughts switch to a different hemisphere, right brain...