Abuse proverbs

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◆ ... you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.

- Jane Green99

◆ But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of the scars will have scars, and that's all I'll be--one big scar of a love gone wrong.

- Amanda Grace99

◆ The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

- Bertolt Brecht99

◆ You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn eighteen. Some people grow up sooner, many grow up later. Some never really do. But just remember that some people in this world are older versions of those same kids we cry for.

- Ashly Lorenzana99

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

- Dave Pelzer99

◆ I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.

- Deb Caletti99

◆ Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their childhood feelings of being engulfed surface. While they could not 'smash their mommy' and still receive love, they find that they can engage in intimate violence with partners who respond to their acting out by trying harder to connect with them emotionally, hoping that the love offered in the present will heal the wounds of the past. If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place and the relationship just becomes a site for continuous power struggle.

- Bell Hooks99

◆ 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.

- Somaly Mam99

◆ I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.

- Robert Goolrick99

◆ There are far too many silent sufferers. ?Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who cares.

- Richelle E. Goodrich99

◆ God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him.

- Joyce Meyer99

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

- Criss Jami99

◆ Most bullies are the product of a stressful and often abusive home life. Next time a bully threatens or attacks you, just yell, 'Don't abuse me like your parents abuse you!' Then call children's services and tell them you saw this bully crying in the bathroom and you're worried about him. Bam! He just got moved to a foster home.

- Eugene Mirman99

◆ Don't judge yourself by what others did to you.

- C. (Cody) Kennedy99

◆ The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.

- Rob Bell99