Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them. If the first woman they passionately loved,...
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Bell Hooks
But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of the scars will have scars,...
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Amanda Grace
You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn eighteen. Some people...
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Ashly Lorenzana
Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their childhood feelings of being engulfed surface. While they could not 'smash their mommy' and still receive love, they find that they can engage...
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Bell Hooks
He placed his handson my mindbefore reachingfor my waistmy hipsor my lipshe didn't call mebeautiful firsthe called meexquisite - how he touches me
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Rupi Kaur
More Quotes By Rachel Abbott
A radio was playing quietly. Nobody was listening. It was there to drown out the silence.
She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?
It was as if she would never be whole until the secrets of the past were exposed.
Today is the day after my wedding. And nothing is the way I expected it to be.
The quiet but inexorable breaking down of self-esteem is much more sinister - it’s violation of the soul.
