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Before the abuser initiates contact with a prospective long-term intimate partner he has already developed some very strong beliefs and attitudes. In his own mind he knows what he needs from an intimate relationship and he is convinced that
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“Everything sad is going to come untrue and it will somehow be greater for having once been broken and lost.”
― The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
― The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
“But we can’t enable bad behavior in ourselves and others and call it love. We can’t tolerate destructive patterns and call it love. And we can’t pride ourselves on being loyal and longsuffering in our relationships when it’s really perpetuating violations of what God says love is.”
― Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are
― Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are
“Charles Spurgeon is often attributed with saying, “Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. It is knowing the difference between right and almost right.”
― Happy Lies: How a Movement You (Probably) Never Heard Of Shaped Our Self-Obsessed World
― Happy Lies: How a Movement You (Probably) Never Heard Of Shaped Our Self-Obsessed World
“Healthy relationships don’t feel threatening. Loving relationships don’t feel cruel. Secure relationships don’t feel as if everything could implode if you dared to draw a boundary.”
― Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are
― Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are
“So, God spare us a life of fairness! To live in a world with grace is better by far than to live in a world of absolute fairness. A fair world may make life nice for us, but only as nice as we are. We may get what we deserve, but I wonder how much that is and whether or not we would really be satisfied. A world with grace will give us more than we deserve. It will give us life, even in our suffering.”
― A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss
― A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss
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