Oh, I know that she’s disgusted,cause she’s feeling so abused.She gets tired of the lust,but it’s so hard to refuse.

I promise.

If you really truly want to know, I’ve thought if I was ever free someday, I might discover I’ve held my tears so long that I can’t cry anymore, that I’m a dry stone and...

They torture us but could not kill our spirit. We have greater divine power, guiding and protecting us.

If I stay here, I will be just fine. Before I shut the door, I got a box of crackers from the kitchen, so I will be fine.

Joe knew that for some, really for most, the derivations of belladonna that blurred their vision and caused their hearts to race would, as well, hasten their forgetting of detail. They would not recall, not...

Fight! Rabbit! Fight!

A man’s beliefs about the effects of the substance will largely be borne out. If he believes that alcohol can make him aggressive, it will, as research has shown. On the other hand, if he...

Have you ever heard a woman claim that the reason why she is chronically mistreating her male partner is because a previous man abused her? I have never run into this excuse in the fifteen...

I’m going to fuck you up until your mother bleeds.

I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

The interruption did nothing but earn her a similar slap, as I’m sure she knew it would. Sometimes I wondered if my mother spoke up at the wrong time on purpose. As often as we...

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were...

But she was weak… weak somehow. It was as if she was sending out radio signals which only he could receive. You could point to certain things–how much she smoked (but he had almost cured...

I wonder where love really is. Good feelings. Happiness. They’re someplace, I know. I feel that. But without Father and Mother, how do I get there?

We have to begin by addressing the underlying causes of exclusion and abuse.

I became skilled at covering my tracks, filling in the blanks. Sometimes the blanks were never filled. At other times, I would recall places where I had been or things I had done as if...

The Airlines lady who travels in the same compartment as us day after day, has bruises on her arms and face today and her eyes keep welling, but no one asks her why. Our eyes...

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

Sometimes you have to stop and ask yourself who’s really stupid, the guys who stop and pick you up, or you, for being out here in the first place?” – excerpt from: freefalling

The concept of leadership is abused by people who think a person becomes a leader when he grows grey hair, put into a position and expected to function. Everyone has a leadership potential carried within...

His worst fantasy her realityhe pulls the stringsdoes unspeakable thingsA sadistic entrancefor his acceptance

Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.

Free yourself from any emotional trauma. Dwell on positive thoughts, the strength for your soul.

I could tell he wanted the best for me. Of course, he assumed that would be getting out. Everyone always thought that, not of what we had to go back to, at home. Maybe our...

what is abusing to a person ?while there is no trust while both are sharing pain,happiness,room,bed,and body,

Because I love you. And I hurt you. I hurt the person I love most in the world, and i will never forgive myself.

Each human being deals with hurt or resentment in a unique way. When you feel insulted or bullied, you may reach for a chocolate bar. In the same circumstance, I might burst into tears. Another...

crimes of passion.” But what could more thoroughly prove that a man did not love his partner? If a mother were to kill one of her children, would we ever accept the claim that she...

The patterns learned as a child, repeat as an adult. Those with an abusive childhood are very often oh-so blind to this inescapable truth.— André Chevalier

Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is inevitable. The world hates Individualism. But that is not to trouble them. They are to be...

We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.

Then why don’t I tell on him?If they don’t, why don’t I?Because.Because I am safe this way,silent unnoticed.

I love you but I got to love me more.

Don’t play his game. Play yours.

I would give anything, anything, to be the man to whom this has not happened. I can not accommodate myself to it. In a lifetime of trying, I can not accommodate myself to it.And now...

You cannot make yourself have a flashback, nor will you have one unless you are emotionally ready to remember something. Once remembered, the memory can help you to face more of the truth. You can...

Survivors are damaged to different degrees by their experiences. This does not depend on what happened physically. A Survivor who has been raped will not necessarily be more damaged than a Survivor who has been...

To cope, he and his siblings – older and younger sisters, a younger brother – created a game called Henry Kissinger. Palahniuk remembers that as their parents fought, lots would be drawn to see who...

I saw leaving any situation where I was treated with disrespect as evidence of my courage. I wanted my daughters to learn that lesson of worth from me.

I’m excited about having Mike here. This guy is an impact player. We have to be careful not to abuse him, but I think this was a big signing for us.

Ritual Abuse usually involves repeated abuse over an extended period of time. The physical abuse is severe, sometimes including torture and killing. The sexual abuse is usually painful,humiliating, intended as a means of gaining dominance...

So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen...

Those who would abuse your trust for their own benefit can do it well, but only one time.

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.

If there’s any guy crazy enough to attack me, I’m going to show him the end of the world — close up. I’m going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes....

She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn’t talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He...

I understand true life doesn’t happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.

Underlying the attack on psychotherapy, I believe, is a recognition of the potential power of any relationship of witnessing. The consulting room is a privileged space dedicated to memory. Within that space, survivors gain the...

If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will.” Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath