Unhealthy Relationship Quotes

“Oh, shut up, Reva."

"I love you."

Maybe she did, and that's why I hated her.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“He didn't care if you were safe, he just cared if you were his.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing

“But we always avoided talking about these things—difficult things—and I wondered if that meant we'd be a little uncomfortable with or disappointed by each other for the rest of our lives.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing

“She says--because darkness needs to be faced, needs to be denied--"You would have given me so much, in exchange for me giving up everything.”
― Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

“Someone who truly loves you will never expect you to give up your goals, dreams or ambitions. They will encourage you, not hold you back.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“If love is what it takes to make her remember a girl in the midst of a fire, then how much can you trust her? How much can you trust that love?”
― Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

“powerful women are tired of trying
for lovers who never try for them”
― R.H. Sin, Algedonic

“Pain and love cannot co-exist in the same space. You can never love anyone from a place of pain. You cannot truly love yourself when you are in pain. The more pain you carry in your heart, the harder it becomes to love anyone including yourself.”
― Kemi Sogunle, Beyond The Pain: A Return to Love

“I did have a friend,' I said.

'And your friend trespassed upon you,' the Wally replied.”
― Alexandra Kleeman, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

“Blake crooned cartoonishly to mock the top 40 hits on the radio. He considered these musicians beneath him, sellouts, but his envy was so obvious to me, and I felt closer to him - and distracted from my dread - by seeing into the feelings he’d never admit to.”
― Alex McElroy, The Atmospherians

“If a person disregards your feelings, ignores your needs and treats you in a damaging way, distance yourself.”
― Dr. Amaya Sharma

“- Men varför stannade du kvar hos honom när det fanns så många fel?
- För att han stannade hos mig. För att jag hade lidit allt för mycket rent fysiskt för att orka med nya plågor också.”
― Marc Levy, Une fille comme elle

“When a man gets serious about changing he has to be willing to look at the choices he is making every day, from the most trivial to the most significant.
He has to accept that no one and nothing other than him is determining what he does. If he backslides into drinking, if he returns to abusive behavior, if he cheats on his partner, it's because that's what he decided to do. In short:

His change depends on his willingness to accept complete responsibility for his own actions. He has to stop blaming them on you, on his addic tion, on his childhood, or on anything else.”
― Lundy Bancroft, The Joyous Recovery: A New Approach to Emotional Healing and Wellness