Dedicated to Anyone Who Has Ever Been in an Abusive Relationship
Posted in Anecdotes-n-Quotes, Blog2Bog on Feb 28th, 2009
Never go to couples or marriage counseling with an abuser, get help yourself, and get him to see someone else to deal with his abuse issues. If they go for help, keep in mind a time limit for improvement, you don’t feel it or see any improvement, you have to plan your escape, you will never […]
Posted in Resources on Feb 18th, 2009
(My own comments in italics and some emphasis mine)
SOURCE: http://www.abusefacts.com/abuse/verbal.php
Verbal Abuse
The well-worn chant, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me” is just not true. As Dr. Grace Kettering writes in her book Verbal Abuse, “Cruel names and labels can hurt us - dreadfully! Many times […]
Posted in Anecdotes-n-Quotes on Feb 16th, 2009
“It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.” - Herman Hesse
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Domestic violence is the patterned and repeated use of coercive and controlling behavior to limit, direct, and shape a partner’s thoughts, […]
Posted in Anecdotes-n-Quotes, Blog2Bog, Resources on Feb 16th, 2009
SOURCE: http://www.halcyon.com/jmashmun/npd/aftermath.html
Narcissists can and do control themselves when someone’s good opinion is sought — in front of a judge, for instance — and are skilled at presenting a respectable, even admirable, public face; some are actually meek and mild in public. Most of us who’ve lived with narcissists have had the experience of being […]
Are you dreaming wistfully about a fantastic day of flowers, magnificent expensive gifts, musical or poetic serenades, professions of everlasting love, perpetual hot sex or trips to Paris? Then, when when the day doesn’t turn out as fantasized, you’re left with some amount of sadness and cynicism or even resentment. Uh-huh. You’ve set yourself up for disappointment again.
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