Quotes About Abusive Relationships

#1. Law firms can create environments for abusive relationships. This is especially true if an attorney has no self-direction, has no independent means of financial support, and has massive student loan indebtedness. You've basically made yourself an indentured servant.

Robin D. Hart

#2. When you truly love yourself, you do not accept abusive relationships, because you know you deserve better.

Stephen Richards

#3. They feed their demon and it gets really strong and then it makes them stay in abusive relationships

Amy Poehler

#4. There's so much going on, with child abuse, not having the right relationships and being in abusive relationships, that play into her, and that energy was constantly in my body for a month. I was the lead character and it was very, very intense.

Tinsel Korey

#5. There's people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.

Adam Duritz

#6. The reason I gained so much weight in the first place and the reason I had such a sorry history of abusive relationships with men was I just needed approval so much. I needed everyone to like me, because I didn't like myself much.

Oprah Winfrey

#7. There is a point in most abusive relationships when it occurs to the beaten party that they are guilty of putting their face in the way of someone else's fist.

Sloane Crosley

#8. The No. 1 reason women stay in abusive relationships - because they're not able to take care of themselves financially. It's also the No. 1 reason why women go back.

Kerry Washington

#9. Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you let them go.

Steve Pavlina

#10. Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.

Gloria Gaynor

#11. You don't understand," she said meekly. "Really? Okay, you're a special case then, are you? Unlike all the others in abusive relationships, your man really does love you. He's a good man deep down. Tells you he'll change.

Steve McHugh

#12. The tricky thing about abusive relationships is that they are never constant hell. You need the good times to clutch onto so you'll tolerate the bad. Those good times are what keep the wheel spinning.

Maggie Young

#13. I met a lot of amazing people whose lives were changed (for the better) by the power of music. Music gave them strength to get out of abusive relationships or to just pick up a musical instrument and learn to play.

Lita Ford

#14. despair of ever making it out of slavery and the slum. Psychologists often see the same resistance to escaping in women who are in abusive relationships. They may live in fear and pain, but they refuse to leave the abuser because they are more fearful of the unknown.

Nick Vujicic

#15. HE ISN'T ABUSIVE BECAUSE HE IS ANGRY; HE'S ANGRY BECAUSE HE'S ABUSIVE.

Lundy Bancroft

#16. I am done looking for love where it doesn't exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.

Maggie Young

#17. An abuser isn't abusive 24/7. They usually demonstrate positive character traits most of the time. That's what makes the abuse so confusing when it happens, and what makes leaving so much more difficult.

Miya Yamanouchi

#18. He had to get inside. It was essential that he know everything, the routes she took, her schedule, and the lay of the land.
The silver moon glowed overhead, mocking him. Somewhere in the trees an owl hooted its laughter at his failure.
Randy
from Spring Cleaning
Coming Summer 2012

Brandi Salazar

#19. Yes, indeed, I am the stuff, the prize property, the recaptured trophy he will put up on the mantelpiece, in a rage every time I move a millimeter or look less polished, less tarted up than he thinks I should look. In a rage, every time I disappoint him. Which will happen every day.

Kaimana Wolff

#20. So while I was busy saving you from Hell,
you were pushing me further to it; the poison murdering me well.

Shannon Perry

#21. ...Studies have found that children who witness abuse are more likely to accept relationships that are abusive.

Asa Don Brown

#22. Many neglected and abused children grow up to be adults who are afraid to take risks of striking out on their own. Many will remain dependent on their abusive parents and unable to separate from them. Others leave their abusive parents only to attach themselves to a partner who is controlling.

Beverly Engel

#23. The bottom line was that I was in an abusive relationship.

Shannon Celebi

#24. You are aggressive", says the emotional abusive.

Mark Brightlife

#25. When we are in a wrong environment, we feel so paranoid, yet unwilling to move out. There's no need for pussyfooting, we got to release our poisonous fluid and scream aloud, storming out of the show like a radical.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#26. Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down and understand that that young boy or young girl saw behavior exhibited by their parents that was negative and abusive and they're going to pass it on.

Pam Grier

#27. She preferred to be numb. And mostly these days she was. She played dead, sleepwalking her way through her life on autopilot, hardly caring whether he hit her or kissed her - it was all the same in the end.

Cleary James

#28. It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.

Stefan Molyneux

#29. Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.

Kate Thornton

#30. Bound by Blood, Marked by the Dragonfly.

Lisa Akers

#31. It's never pretty when you leave an abusive and controlling relationship. The warden always protests when the prison gets shut-down.

Steve Maraboli

#32. It is essential that children who are directly or indirectly affected by domestic violence receive psychological care.

Asa Don Brown

#33. I'd lost myself in the abyss of someone else's tyranny ... again.

Cassandra Giovanni

#34. Each time he came he would twist my defenceless body into a different pose, as if I were his very own doll

Rachel Abbott

#35. In some cases abusive or damaged relationships cannot and should not be saved.

Toni Sorenson

#36. There's always something in it for the person who is allowing to be taken advantage of. - Psychotherapist David in Type 1 Sociopath

P.A. Speers

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

Darnell Lamont Walker

#38. Is he your warden now too? You know I saw this story on the news last week about controlling, abusive teenage relationships and-
"Okay!" I cut him off, and then shoved his arm. "Time for the werewolf to get out!

Stephenie Meyer

#39. If your partner has ever humiliated you.. he can never respect you all over again ..

Himmilicious

#40. The quiet but inexorable breaking down of self-esteem is much more sinister - it's violation of the soul.

Rachel Abbott

#41. When people conclude that anger causes abuse, they are confusing cause and effect. Ray was not abusive because he was angry; he was angry because he was abusive. Abusers carry attitudes that produce fury.

Lundy Bancroft

#42. It's not rocking the boat, Dad. It's called communication. You're allowed to ask questions. Other people do it all the time. Other people don't live in fear of someone else's reactions. They don't relentlessly stress out about getting into trouble.

Koren Zailckas