Quotes About An Abusive Relationship

#1. After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled between houses - staying with friends, families from church, and relying on the kindness of teachers and people throughout my community to help me grow up essentially without parents.

Ronnie Musgrove

#2. The first step in Overcoming domestic violence begins with recognizing you are in an abusive relationship.

Grace Crockett

#3. It is easy to imagine situations where we sacrifice both freedom and safety at the same time: when we enter an abusive relationship or vote for a fascist. Similarly,

Timothy Snyder

#4. And we're at four. Alexis Ann, I think we're in an abusive relationship.

Melissa A. Craven

#5. An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

Joe Biden

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

Shannon Celebi

#7. I again invoke my favorite analogy for eating disorders: abusive lovers. And what do you do when someone is in an abusive relationship? You don't allow visitation rights, weekly dates. You don't put them in the vicinity of or let the abuser flirt with them. You keep them the fuck away.

Kelsey Osgood

#8. An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.

Desmond Tutu

#9. I grew up with an extremely abusive father. As a mother, I wanted to protect my own children from exposure to violence. When I found out one of my daughters was in an abusive relationship, it broke my heart. Finally, she left him ?- but only after his abuse started spreading to the children.

Ginny Brown-Waite

#10. At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.

Lucy Lawless

#11. Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not "cure" partner abuse.

Lundy Bancroft

#12. i can't tell if my mother is
terrified or in love with
my father it all
looks the same

i flinch when you touch me
i fear it is him

Rupi Kaur

#13. Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands.

Joyce Banda

#14. Learn to say to the abuser in a firm voice, "Stop it." Do not explain yourself, your needs, or what you mean. Simply call a halt to the abuse, and let that be your final word.

Caroline Abbott

#15. Domestic violence rarely affects only those directly involved in the abusive relationship.

Asa Don Brown

#16. Everyone secretly wants to be owned.

Alicen Grey

#17. In a verbally abusive relationship, the partner learns to tolerate abuse without realizing it and to lose self-esteem without realizing it. She is blamed by the abuser and becomes the scapegoat. The partner is then the victim.

Patricia Evans

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

Steve Maraboli

#19. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous.

Lloyd DeMause

#20. It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.

Lisa Snowdon

#21. I choose what sort of relationship I want to have with my family of origin today.

Maureen Brady