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“Most bullies are the product of a stressful and often abusive home life. Next time a bully threatens or attacks you, just yell, 'Don't abuse me like your parents abuse you!' Then call children's se...”
“But if he is angry at the world for doing him harm, why does he take it out on his loving partner? Couldnt he just as readily express his rage by playing racquetball or pounding pillows. His ideas ...”
“When a woman is convinced that she can stop the violence in her marriage, her stubborn determination feeds her sense of failure each time she sees that she cant regulate her husbands demands and ab...”
“Once this bubble of self-deception is burst and the mask that shielded her and others from what she wished to ignore is lifted, it is difficult for the woman to return to her life as it was. It has...”
“Canadian researcher Donald Dutton . . has written that marital work with a man who has a history of relationship violence may be a conflict-generator and that individual work . . should come first ...”
“I look around at everybody laughing and joking together and struggle to understand my life has become a living hell that nobody present could even begin to imagine”
“Anger WorksAnger can be extremely rewarding in the short term. It can distract you from pain and threatening feelings. You may use anger to provoke fear and anxiety in others. Such anger makes othe...”
“We take the most difficult relationship of our childhood... and we MARRY it.”
“The secret tugs at my sleeve.A child looking for attention.It is not a big secret.But it is not the only one either.Strength in numbers they say.For they are many.Many little things that together ...”
“Please dont drown into his fears, his concrete fists dont let him again, break the bridge of your nose with his cruel born hits. Then disappear into that mask of misery.”
“Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.”
“We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.”
“The toxic behaviors were there before you decided to enter into relationships with them. The signs were there. You may have chosen to look the other way, but the signs were there.Psychotherapist fr...”
“Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying.”
“If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of us eventually turn into or remain w...”
“Deep connection is the antidote to madness.”
“Sex outside of marriage is an abuse.”
“stars are the scars of the universe”
“I'm not a victim. I'm not a survivor. I'm a fighter.”
“Mother can beat me all she wants, but I havent let her take away my will to somehow survive.”
