Top 18 Susan Forward Quotes
#1. My father never did any of the things that my friends' fathers did with them. We never tossed a football around or even watched games together. He would always say, "I don't have time - maybe later," but he always had time to sit around and get drunk.
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#2. Remember, tears are like rivers that start in one place and flow to another - they can help carry you to healing.
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#3. [The incestuous father...] may be unconsciously seeking revenge against either his wife or his mother for what he considers a variety of emotional crimes against him.
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#4. Instead of promoting healthy development, they unconsciously undermine it, often with the belief that they are acting in their child's best interest.
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#5. You can learn, but you've got to give yourself time to pick up the basics, to practice, and maybe even to fail once or twice.
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#6. Remember that you always have the right to be treated with respect, and to protest unfair treatment or criticism. It's vital to reinforce those rights with boundaries.
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#7. We can only speculate why, but physically abusive parents seem to share certain characteristics. First, they have an appalling lack of impulse control.
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#8. I estimate the number [of incest victims] to be somewhere between ten and twenty million Americans...
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#9. Successful adult relationships, whether between lovers or
friends, require a significant degree of vulnerability, trust,
and openness -
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#10. As long as you continue to react so strongly to them, you give them the power to upset you, which allows them to control you. To
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#11. His father's general mistrust of the future carried through to his thoughts on women. Like success, women would inevitably turn on you someday. He had a suspicion of women that bordered on paranoia. His son internalized these views as well:
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#12. She was battered incessantly, regularly, all the time. I'm not saying 24 hours a day, but the incidents of battering were extraordinarily high.
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#13. Incest is almost always a devastating experience for
the victim.
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#14. Every time that I take out a woman, I hear my father's voice saying, Women love to trick men. They'll take you for all you've got if you're stupid enough to let them.
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#15. Denial is the lid on our emotional pressure cooker: the longer we leave it on, the more pressure we build up. Sooner or later, that pressure is bound to pop the lid, and we have an emotional crisis.
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#16. When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!
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#18. Many daughters may never have given themselves permission to even 'consider' changing the relationship with their mothers, because they didn't think they had the right to do it.
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