5 Powerful Reality Checks For Survivors Of Narcissistic Abuse

If someone doesn’t have the moral capacity to treat you with basic respect or act with integrity, it is doubtful they have changed overnight for someone else.
If someone doesn’t have the moral capacity to treat you with basic respect or act with integrity, it is doubtful they have changed overnight for someone else.
Big dreams accelerate and come to life precisely when you’re willing to give up the resistance to what could be, rather than how you think they should be.
When you start to forgive yourself, you start to believe in your potential to reach all of your dreams.
You’d rather keep your thoughts or feelings to yourself than risk hurting your partner’s feelings or starting an argument.
Virgo: Breaking promises. Virgos want someone who will stick to their word. Who will follow through on what they say they are going to do.
Sometimes when a couple is so insistent that they are perfect, it couldn’t be more clear that the people they are trying to convince are themselves.
I want you to know I would do things differently now. I wouldn’t be so cynical, I wouldn’t close myself off the way I did, I wouldn’t have doubted your intentions, I wouldn’t have refused to believe that maybe I deserved more than all I had ever known.
Sometimes recovery isn’t just healing but rather someone else learning to love your scars.
The abuse cycle relies on hot and cold, mean and sweet behavior, which means nice actions after an abusive incident cannot be taken at face value, but rather as embedded in a chronic pattern of behavior.
“I had a dream that I killed myself and God showed me a bird’s-eye view of the effect my death had on my mom and dad.”
Libra, you’re a sneaky jackass. At your best you are helpful, but at your worst you are superficial and impatient. Exactly like honor-breaking, guest-murdering Walder Frey.
If one or both people in a relationship are closed to learning about themselves and each other, the relationship will not heal.
Of course it’s always “okay” to call it quits if that is what you want. No one can tell you whether or not it’s right for you. But – and this is a big ‘but’ – you might want to do your own healing before ending the relationship.
There are various things men often do (or don’t do) that cause women to feel shitty in their relationships.