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“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

tags: abuse, emotional-abuse, gaslighting, manipulated, manipulative, narcissists, psychological-abuse, rescuing, wounded-souls

37 likes

“To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.”
― Andrei Lankov

tags: emotional-abuse, emotional-neglect, mental-disorder-bias, mental-disorders, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness, stigma, suffering, suffering-cruelty, suffering-quote, violence

90 likes

“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, A Journey to Healing After Emotional Abuse

tags: domestic-abuse, domestic-violence, emotional-abuse, healing-after-emotional-abuse

16 likes

“An emotionally abusive relationship, in very simplistic terms, is much like standing up in a too hot bath and sinking back in so as not to feel so dizzy.”
― Jackie Haze, Borderless

tags: abuse, abusive-relationships, confusion, emotional-abuse, grief, healing, heartbreak, life, loss, love, narcissistic-abuse, npd, relationships, trauma

10 likes

“They said my solution was foreign because I lived on another planet. It required honesty. It required communication. It required kindness. It required integrity. It required compassion. It required empathy. It required a deep understanding of what it meant to be humane. It required courage to be something above the others. It required proving your love of God.”
― Shannon L. Alder