Batterers aren’t renowned for taking responsibility for their abusiveness, Sam. They tend to shed blame like a snake molts.

One might say my life has been tragic. Yet, as I sat in pain in the hospital I raised my tired hands toward the sky, palms facing in, fingers spread, and I gave thanks.

It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power.

Beating yourself up over every perceived mistake is the work of an internal abuser who must be restrained and reformed.

The world isn’t fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?

There is a history of abuse, and we’re calling upon the ministry to be very conscious about constitutional rights this year. If they are not, we will be.

Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you’re trying to escape.

First you try to find a reason, try to understand what you’ve done so wrong so you can be sure not to do it anymore. After that you look for signs of a Jekyll and...

The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it...

power happily walks hand in hand with abuse

A man who does not abuse is considered sterile socially.

A man’s strength was supposed to be against the outside world: to fight it back from himself and those he took under his protection: his wife, his children, and for a man strong enough, more...

If you have survived an abuser, and you tried to make things right… If you forgave, and you struggled, and even if the expression of your grief and your anger tumbled out at times in...

Eating disorders are prevalent among women who were sexually abused as children. They seem to have components of other symptoms such as obsessions, compulsions, avoidance of food, and anxiety, and they primarily include a distorted...

As I have explained in earlier chapters, abusiveness has little to do with psychological problems and everything to do with values and beliefs. Where do a boy’s values about partner relationships come from? The sources...

The central attitudes driving Rambo are:Strength and aggressiveness are good; compassion and conflict resolution are bad.Anything that could be even remotely associated with homosexuality, including walking away from possible violence or showing any fear or...

i sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a candle. But if they were a code, who held the...

Power without abuse loses its charm

Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.

Being kidnapped and abused by the undead was worse than calculus, but not by a wide margin.

They plan and they fix and they do, and then some kitchen-dwelling fiend slips a scorchy, soggy, tasteless mess into their pots and pans…So when the bread didn’t rise, and the fish wasn’t quite done...

Thomas was like a drug, so smooth and overwhelming that he took one up a level in their emotions just by watching him and listening to him. He was a natural entertainer, filled with talent...

The only reason I haven’t shot you yet is because he’s the one who should get to do it,” I say. “Stay away from him or I’ll decide I no longer care.

The survivor movements were also challenging the notion of a dysfunctional family as the cause and culture of abuse, rather than being one of the many places where abuse nested. This notion, which in the...

It is necessary to make this point in answer to the `iatrogenic’ theory that the unveiling of repressed memories in MPD sufferers, paranoids and schizophrenics can be created in analysis; a fabrication of the doctor—patient...

How everyone is struggling for something. Trying to keep the balance. Struggling to find their way back. Doing the best they can with what they’ve been dealt. Staying in place, doing anything to keep from...

I know who you are…I’ve fallen hard for that person, and I sure as hell am not going to let you fade into your past.

When trauma involves intentional harm, such as in a crime or abuse, trust can totally collapse.

When a man strikes another man, he better have a good reason. There is never a good reason for a man to strike a woman.

The programme into which Cheryl was inducted combined all the different ways the intelligence community had learned could cause intense psychological change in adults and children. It had been learned through the use of both...

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.

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...