To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived -This is to have succeeded.” ~Bessie Anderson Stanley - Rick Cormier

The fears you avoid become stronger. The fears you confront become weaker while you get stronger.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for our families.

But they are experts at using their victim's need for attention and affection to manipulate them. It's important to understand that, while abusers are incapable of loving others, they're incapable of loving themselves, also. Abusers need to feel superior. They will obsessively find fault, teach, correct and criticize.