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.

This is the truth about The Killer, ain’t it baby? You’re just a big ol’ bag of screams under all that big, bad muscle, ain’t you?

Did I imagine the castle, the dungeon, the ritual orgies and violations? Did Lucy, Billy, Samuel, Eliza, Shirley and Kato make it all up? I went back to the industrial estate and found the castle....

Maybe you never considered yourself a bully, a batterer or an abuser before, but maybe you are — to yourself.

Beware of destructive individuals whose spirits breathe every day the worst toxic oxygen of the soul, “SALIGIA” Superbia, Avaritia, Luxuria, Invidia, Gula, Ira, Acedia.No matter how much goodness, patience, understanding, assistance, forgiveness and letting go...

After all I’ve done for you’ has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

Don’t think that what you say fleetingly to one man be harmless. Your fleeting words can travel so fast and so lightly that soon enough they will end up hitting someone so hard that they...

I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to avoid. Christmas, birthdays. Dry lips. On their best married days, their communications were...

We haven’t seen this kind of abuse of power since Richard Nixon.

Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were.

The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you’re made to believe the spell can never be broken.

The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love. p4

false memory” implantations.

As long as we see abusers as victims, or as out-of-control monsters, they will continue getting away with ruining lives. If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up...

It is important to note that research has shown that men who have abusive mothers do not tend to develop especially negative attitudes toward females, but men who have abusive fathers do; the disrespect that...

Some scientists were conducting an experiment, he said, trying to gauge the impact of abuse on children. Ducks, like people, develop bonds between mother and young. They call it imprinting. So the scientists set out...

Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment.

Evil ethicists are the holocaust of humanity; if philosophy can be the instant sunlight to their endless vampirism, it will save more lives than all the doctors who have ever lived.

Maybe Duke was just the kind of person you don’t keep in your life, but the kind of person that changes your life forever.

It would result in medicine abuse or difficulty in tracking down customers who left the wrong contact information.

You could choose anywhere instead of this house. I know I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t have to be.” The spider said nothing. Come to think of it, Callum was sure the spider hadn’t...

When one woman doesn’t speak, other women get hurt.

Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one...

You have to reach out to your inner-abuser and make peace. You can’t live your life as your own worst enemy!

We have this judgmental way of looking at the idea of leaving a home or a family, and our society has reinforced this idea that if we “run away,” we are “running away from our...

I’m lonely,” and they ate her in the street.

Elizabeth, what this man has done is terrible. There aren’t any words that are strong enough to describe how wicked and evil he is! He has taken nine months of your life that you will...

I am here for readers to see parts of themselves during my dark days, but also for a better way of living in my triumphs and gained wisdom.

I won’t compete with anybody. I love to compete with my own body. When God closes a door against me, I should not attempt to bang on it. And if God gives me a key...

My hands twitch as they tremble and every nerve and muscle in my body is frozen—numb.

when parameters are not set for man, there is always an unknown abuse

for protection.”My brother was born nine months later, fists already swinging.

Abstaining from sex, hitting the books, and wearing loose-fitting clothes are common ways that girls try to molt their “slutty” image. But more often their shame leads them to self-destructive behavior. They become willing to...

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

I just can’t seem to do anything right.”At other moments, he sounds wounded and lost, hungering for love and for someone to take care of him. When this side of him emerges, he appears open...

Objectification is a critical reason why an abuser tends to get worse over time. As his conscience adapts to one level of cruelty—or violence—he builds to the next. By depersonalizing his partner, the abuser protects...

When your mind is quiet and you listen closely, you will hear the children weeping silently. If you can’t quite hear their cries, then listen with your eyes. These are the children of the streets,...

Being a victim is supposed to set you free; it acquits you of any agency, any sense of responsibility to the person who did you harm. It’s not your fault, they say. Leave him, they...

Anger is the immune system of the soul.

[Abusers] blame the world – circumstances, other people – for their defeats, misfortune, misconduct, and failures. The abuser firmly believes that his life is swayed by currents and persons over which he has no influence...

It is worth — given the passage of time — recalling the basic architecture of the Crisis: 121 children from many different and largely unrelated families had been taken into the care of Cleveland County...

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

witch hunts” in the 1980s. There were big mistakes made in how some cases were handled, particularly in the earliest years. But even in those years there were cases such as those of Frank Fuster...

(Talking about the movement to deny the prevalence and effects of adult sexual exploitation of children)So what does this movement consist of? Who are the movers and shakers? Well molesters are in it, of course....