Top 52 Your Abuser Quotes
#1. You don't deserve the anger you're turning on yourself. Your abuser's the one who does.
Cheryl Rainfield
#2. As long as your abuser has you scared, you will stay in the cycle of abuse. Thinking of solutions helps you to escape.
Roseanne Barr
#3. Perhaps you expected to feel great as soon as you escaped your abuser, and maybe you did feel a great sense of relief for a while. However, as time has passed, you may be dismayed by the extent of your emotional pain.
Caroline Abbott
#4. A domestic violence advocate can help you discern your level of risk from your abuser and whether you should get a civil restraining order.
Caroline Abbott
#5. Alcohol cannot create an abuser, and sobriety cannot cure one. The only way a man can overcome his abusiveness is by dealing with his abusiveness. And you are not "enabling" your partner to mistreat you; he is entirely responsible for his own actions.
Lundy Bancroft
#6. Instead of feeding the memories with resistance, I starved them with acceptance. I denied them the attention they demanded. I refused to give my abuser that kind of power over me. The monsters under my bed would be there by invitation only.
Dennis Randall
#7. It is essential that children who are directly or indirectly affected by domestic violence receive psychological care.
Asa Don Brown
#8. I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.
Kevin Bacon
#10. The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#11. A terrible sadness threatened to overwhelm me as I wondered how two people capable of such love for each other had eventually felt so little for the child they had produced between them.
Toni Maguire
#12. 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
#13. Prosecutors often wince when they have to take a child abuser to trial, because usually the only witnesses they can use are children who are terrified at the prospect of testifying against their parents.
James Lee Burke
#14. I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for it. I mean I really feel dread. It is one of the emotions I always feel as I approach it, because I have no faith that my sails won't be ripped this time.
Terence McKenna
#15. The best way to teach a child abuser to stop abusing is not counseling. It is not therapy. It is a mouth full of broken teeth and arms that, when the bones heal, cannot produce the force necessary to hit or burn another child.
Ryan Sayles
#16. I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.
Philip Yancey
#17. I believe in having certain releases, certain outlets. One has to indulge. If you don't indulge, you don't live -might as well be dead. I believe in indulging as a user and not as an abuser.
Grace Jones
#18. 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
#19. What, for instance, does it mean to be insulted? [29] Stand by a rock and insult it, and what have you accomplished? If someone responds to insult like a rock, what has the abuser gained with his invective? If, however, he has his victim's weakness to exploit, then his efforts are worth his while.
Epictetus
#20. Only an abuser can make the decision to stop abusing.
Ted Nugent
#21. Maybe you never considered yourself a bully, a batterer or an abuser before, but maybe you are - to yourself.
Bryant McGill
#22. 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
#23. You have to reach out to your inner-abuser and make peace. You can't live your life as your own worst enemy!
Bryant McGill
#24. 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
#25. It is seldom that domestic violence is an isolated episode; rather it is comprised of a number of episodes over an extended period of time.
Asa Don Brown
#26. There are different kinds of predators. There are the kinds who target the weak. And there are those with more of a Dexter vibe who don't lose sleep if a child abuser has a hard time on the way to the station.
Jonathan Maberry
#27. Vipassana proponents always stress that if you are insulted by someone and get angry, the result is not the abuser's fault. It is your fault because you choose to react.
Ashwin Sanghi
#28. Don't be depressed if you feel like a victim of abuse. It is because the abuser knows that your action can get you out of that situation and without depending on anything, live a life within your expectation and beyond.
Denny A
#30. When put in a room with both parents, would almost always embrace the abuser.
Louise Penny
#31. The Silence of Shame, Empowers the Abuser"
. Phyllis Hain
Phyllis Hain
#32. The abuser knows where you work. Even if a woman goes underground at night, the abuser knows where to find her during the day.
Gordon Campbell
#33. There are generally three parties to child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander.
Louise Penny
#34. I have never seen a client make a serious effort to confront his abusiveness unless somebody required him to do the work. The abuser who truly enters counseling voluntarily, with no one holding anything over his head, quits within a few sessions, unless he finds a counselor he can manipulate.
Lundy Bancroft
#35. his abuse
makes her an anvil
without spark
Munia Khan
#36. It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her.
Leslie Morgan Steiner
#37. Be aware of children who may be living in a domestically violent home.
Asa Don Brown
#38. If an 'animal abuser' were killed in a research lab firebombing, I would unequivocally support that, too.
Gary Yourofsky
#39. 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
#40. Bringing about change in an abuser generally requires four elements: (1) consequences, (2) education, (3) confrontation, and (4) accountability.
Lundy Bancroft
#41. Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.
Stefan Molyneux
#42. Politicians are propaganda, the people with guns are the enforcers and the media is the enthusiastic lapdog who enables the entire behavior and acts as the verbal abuser against those who deviate from nodding their heads at the vast statues of evil that we inherited.
Stefan Molyneux
#43. While it is easy to blame the hand of the abuser, when that hand no longer is raised against you, why do you continue to feel the burn of its touch?
Deborah Brodie
#44. Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.
Camille Paglia
#45. The abuser's desire to abuse is not created by the child - it is there before the child appears
Carolyn Ainscough
#46. If you repeat your negative memories in your mind and feel self-pity, then YOU are both the abuser and the victim - not those who wronged you in the past. Your present and future will be happier if you take control of your thoughts.
Maddy Malhotra
#47. so often victims end up unnecessarily prolonging their abuse because they buy into the notion that their abuser must be coming from a wounded place and that only patient love and tolerance (and lots of misguided therapy) will help them heal.
George K. Simon
#48. Your husband's abuse of you feels "normal" to him. A goal of a abuser treatment program is to teach a healthier normal for the relationship.
Caroline Abbott
#49. Hi, my name is Kurt Cobain, I'm homosexual, I'm a pagan, I'm a drug abuser, and I like to fuck pot-bellied pigs!
Kurt Cobain
#50. Domestic violence is any behavior involving physical, psychological, emotional, sexual or verbal abuse. It is any form of aggression intended to hurt, damage, or kill an intimate person.
Asa Don Brown
#51. When I was married to an abuser, he'd tell me he wouldn't have to get so angry if only I'd be less demanding, more supportive, more understanding. I hid the truth from everyone, especially myself.
Luanne Rice
#52. An abuser's psychological diagnosis isn't the problem. Their sense of entitlement is.
Caroline Abbott
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