If you are a victim of domestic violence, it can be challenging to find the motivation to move forward.
You may feel overwhelmed, alone, and powerless.
However, motivational quotes can help you find the strength to take the first step towards healing and recovery.
Motivational quotes can provide comfort, inspiration, and hope when you need it the most.
They can remind you that you are not alone, and that there is a way out of your current situation.
Whether you are trying to leave an abusive relationship, or you are in the process of healing, motivational quotes can help you stay focused on your goals and aspirations.
In this article, we will explore some of the most powerful and inspiring motivational quotes for domestic violence victims.
These quotes will help you find the courage to take action, the strength to keep going, and the hope to believe in a brighter future.
Understanding Domestic Violence
Defining Domestic Violence
Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over the other partner.
It can occur in any type of relationship, including marriage, dating, or living together.
Domestic violence can take many forms, including physical, emotional, sexual, and financial abuse.
Physical abuse includes hitting, punching, kicking, or any other form of physical harm.
Emotional abuse includes verbal attacks, humiliation, and isolation.
Sexual abuse includes any unwanted sexual contact or behavior.
Financial abuse includes controlling finances, withholding money, or preventing the victim from working.
Recognizing the Signs
It is important to recognize the signs of domestic violence in order to seek help and support.
Some common signs of domestic violence include frequent injuries, isolation from friends and family, sudden changes in behavior, and controlling behavior by the abuser.
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, it is important to seek help and support.
There are many resources available, including hotlines, shelters, and counseling services.
The Cycle of Abuse
The cycle of abuse is a pattern that many domestic violence victims experience.
It includes a cycle of tension building, an acute incident of abuse, and a period of reconciliation.
This cycle can be difficult to break, and it is important for victims to seek help and support in order to break the cycle and escape the abusive relationship.
Remember, domestic violence is never the victim’s fault, and help is available.
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, seek help and support as soon as possible.
Overcoming Trauma
If you are a victim of domestic violence, you may be struggling to overcome the trauma you have experienced.
It can be challenging to move forward, but there are strategies you can use to help you heal and build resilience.
Self-Care Strategies
Self-care is essential for anyone who has experienced trauma. Taking care of yourself can help you feel better physically and emotionally.
Some self-care strategies you can try include:
- Eating a healthy diet
- Getting regular exercise
- Practicing relaxation techniques, such as deep breathing or meditation
- Spending time with friends and loved ones
- Engaging in hobbies or activities you enjoy
Building Resilience
Building resilience is an important part of overcoming trauma.
Resilience is the ability to bounce back from difficult situations and to cope with stress.
Some ways to build resilience include:
- Developing a positive attitude
- Practicing gratitude
- Setting goals and working towards them
- Learning new skills
- Seeking out positive social support
Seeking Professional Help
If you are struggling to overcome the trauma of domestic violence, seeking professional help can be beneficial.
A therapist or counselor can provide you with the support and guidance you need to heal.
Some types of therapy that may be helpful include:
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)
- Trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (TF-CBT)
Remember, healing from trauma takes time, and it is a process. Be patient with yourself and take things one day at a time.
With the right support and strategies, you can overcome the trauma of domestic violence and move forward with your life.
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Quotes For Domestic Violence Victims
“If you have survived an abuser, and you tried to make things right… If you forgave, and you struggled, and even if the expression of your grief and your anger tumbled out at times in too much rage and too many words… If you spent years hanging on to the concepts of faith, hope, and love, even after you knew in your heart that those intangibles, upon which life is formed and sustained, would fail in the end… And especially, if you stood between your children – or anyone – and him, and took the physical, emotional, and spiritual pummeling in their stead, then you are a hero.”
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“If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn’t work.”
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You want to know why. In many ways, you might feel like you need to know. But, if you could come up with a reason or a motive, it wouldn’t help you. Maybe you believe that if you did this or that differently, he wouldn’t have abused you. That is faulty thinking and won’t help you get better. You didn’t do anything to cause the abuse. No matter what you said, no matter what you did, you didn’t deserve to be abused. You are the victim and it won’t help you to know why he supposedly abused you. No matter what his reason, there is no excuse for abuse. You are not to blame.”
― Domestic Violence: My Freedom from Abuse
“How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves. People are supposed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.”
― Allegiant
“What does a woman feel when she is hit? My mother slapped me when I was a child – on two occasions, to the point of pure hysteria; I never liked it. Those who are humiliated in such a way learn to disintegrate – that is, they become once removed from pain. This is the most direct route to psychic ruin.”
― The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide
“In the process of my evolution, I became a victim of domestic war, an emotional casualty for a major portion of my life, entwined, entrapped and emotionally involved, until I learned how to become free.
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“We’d like to believe that by discussing what has occurred will change things. Until now, here’s a mental illness that must be dealt with by going to the root.”
― Domestic Violence-The Cure
“Often, to keep the family together, the woman will accept repeated beatings and rapes, emotional battering and verbal degredation; she will be debased and ashamed but she will stick it out, or when she runs he will kill her. Ask the politicians who exude delight when they advocate for the so-called traditional family how many women are beaten and children raped when there is no man in the family. Zero is such a perfect and encouraging number, but who, among politicians in male-supremacist cultures, can count that high?”
― Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women’s Liberation
“We live in a world in which women are battered and are unable to flee from the men who beat them, although their door is theoretically standing wide open. One out of every four women becomes a victim of severe violence. One out of every two will be confronted by sexual harassment over her lifetime. These crimes are everywhere and can take place behind any front door in the country, every day, and barely elicit much more than a shrug of the shoulders and superficial dismay.”
― 3096 Days
“When he first said my diagnosis, I couldn’t believe it. There must be another PTSD than post-traumatic stress disorder, I thought. I have only heard of war veterans who have served on the front lines and seen the horrors of battle being diagnosed with PTSD. I am a Beverly Hills housewife, not a soldier. I can’t have PTSD. Well, I was wrong. Housewives can get PTSD, too, and yours, truly did.”
― Hiding from Reality: My Story of Love, Loss, and Finding the Courage Within
“As tears fall from her face
she begins to sway
Love shouldn’t hurt this way.”
― Snow White Darkness
“A pastor who counsels an abuse victim to:
– Submit to her husband
– Pray harder, or
– Be a better wife
can’t help her. She should not feel guilty about looking elsewhere for help.”
― A Journey through Emotional Abuse: From Bondage to Freedom
“We are all the product of our past and have to live with our memories and personality they cannot be erased.”
― Full Circle
“Sounds of depression
remembering rejection
Hope turns to despair
black roses everywhere
Keep hearing echoes
voices in my mind
repeating endless lies
evil in disguise”
― Snow White Darkness
“NEVER EVER STAY IN AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR CHILDREN. That is the worst thing one can ever do. It is better for a child to live with one Good Parent than two frustrated,screwed up ones.”
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“How she realized at last that not even love
could justify this, that no affection could, not ever.
Still, in the glass, she sees her own mouth,
opening and closing and silent as a fish.”
― Conquest
“My hands twitch as they tremble and every nerve and muscle in my body is frozen—numb.”
― Mine 2
“Domestic Violence – I Deserve Respect!
As a male advocate for ending domestic abuse, Patrick believes domestic violence is not just a woman’s issue, it’s everyone’s issue. In his moving personal memoir, I AM ME, and in his powerful presentations, Patrick describes the painful domestic verbal abuse he endured from ex-wives and the physical abuse he suffered from his first LGBT partner. To book Patrick visit his website.”
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“Even those who drink until blacking out, those who beat women, are not the exception, hopefully not the norm, trapped somewhere in society in a dark place nobody wants to talk about.”
― just woke up dead: sex, drug and alcohol addiction memoir
“Suspicion of Abuse gets to your toes before you see it in your face.”
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“Sure relationships include arguments, but pain is not a side-effect of love.”
― Binge
“The mere fact that I exist means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn why I please.”
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“Perhaps you expected to feel great as soon as you escaped your abuser, and maybe you did feel a great sense of relief for a while. However, as time has passed, you may be dismayed by the extent of your emotional pain.”
― A Journey to Healing After Emotional Abuse
“The signs of sociopathy are usually there before we are abused; most of us just don’t know enough to recognize them”
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“Truth: Rape does indeed happen between girlfriend and boyfriend, husband and wife. Men who force their girlfriends or wives into having sex are committing rape, period. The laws are blurry, and in some countries marital rape is legal. But it still is rape.”
― Invisible Girls: The Truth About Sexual Abuse–A Book for Teen Girls, Young Women, and Everyone Who Cares About Them
“There is life after abuse. This is mine.”
― The House on Sunset
“Anyone could see that this woman is living a nightmare. Except that she goes through her daily life wide awake, knowing that she could make a mistake at any moment.”
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“John was still making comments regarding violent things that he shouldn’t, but I hoped he was just being a big mouth. Nobody was going to listen to me anyway.”
― Debbie
“In America, it is reported by some sources that there were more domestic violence related murders in the home than the 58,000 Americans soldiers killed in the entire Vietnam War.
We are in a state of domestic war, the battlefield is in the home.”
― Torn From the Inside Out
“Domestic violence is not just perpetrated by a husband or a partner. Families too are a party to it. To my mind, violation of basic human rights by anybody around us – a parent, a sibling or a relative – is domestic violence.”
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“We all know the protocol. But more powerful than our protocol is our grooming to believe in something more.”
― Fun Dip & Other Misfortunes
“Life is definitely about taking chances, living every minute with zeal, and then laying back and regretting nothing.”
― A Melancholy Note SE
“An abuser isn’t abusive 24/7. They usually demonstrate positive character traits most of the time. That’s what makes the abuse so confusing when it happens, and what makes leaving so much more difficult.”
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“Threatening a current or former partner isn’t passion, or love, or heartache. It’s violence, it’s abuse and it’s a crime.”
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“It’s important that you don’t continue to ignore or accept rages. Realize that extreme rage directed at you or your children is verbal and emotional abuse. Even if you think you can handle it, over time it can erode your self-esteem and poison the relationship. Seek support immediately.”
― Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder
“How could she love him after what he did to her? How could she contemplate taking him back?”
It’s sad that those are the first thoughts that run through our minds when someone is abused. Shouldn’t there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love the abusers?”
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“Domestic violence is any behavior involving physical, psychological, emotional, sexual or verbal abuse. It is any form of aggression intended to hurt, damage, or kill an intimate person.”
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“Men who hit do so because they can…someplace they enjoy or need to humiliate another. There is no love in violence, only control and domination.”
― Emilia
“You have a right against any forms of domestic violence.
Protect your life.
Protect your family and love ones.
Mutual respect and love are main keys to avoid violence.”
– Angelica Hopes, Life Issues
“Domestic violence is frequently excused when alcohol and other substances are involved.”
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“Sometimes it is difficult to realize or hear our own prejudices and own up to their existence. Admitting there is a problem is the first step to recovery.”
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“The lack of culpability of the perpetrator and his or her transference of blame onto alcohol or other substances only perpetuates the violent behaviors.”
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“It is seldom that domestic violence is an isolated episode; rather it is comprised of a number of episodes over an extended period of time.”
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“Partner psychological abuse encompasses nonaccidental verbal or symbolic acts by one partner that result, or have reasonable potential to result, in significant harm to the other partner.”
― DSM-5 Guidebook: The Essential Companion to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
“Everybody’s good when they’re good, darling. You don’t judge a person by that. It’s how they act when things aren’t good that tells you who they really are.”
― The Build-up Season
“Every time he raised his hands on her. He killed a prince from a fairy tale somewhere deep within her heart, brutally.”
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“The abusive partner continually denies any responsibility for problems.”
― The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing
“Acts of psychological abuse include berating or humiliating the victim; interrogating the victim; restricting the victim’s ability to come and go freely; obstructing the victim’s access to assistance (e.g., law enforcement; legal, protective, or medical resources); threatening the victim with physical harm or sexual assault; harming, or threatening to harm, people or things that the victim cares about; unwarranted restriction of the victim’s access to or use of economic resources; isolating the victim from family, friends, or social support resources; stalking the victim; and trying to make the victim think that he or she is crazy.”
― DSM-5 Guidebook: The Essential Companion to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
“Perpetrators of abuse often make their victims believe that they are somehow responsible for their own abuse. Such misplaced notions shift the blame of the abuse from the abuser to the abusee.”
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“…a freeze response (dissociation, collapse, numbing, paralysis, deadness) during the incident that threatened your life or limb. Sometimes it’s difficult for people to understand that this is really survival response…”
― 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery: Take-Charge Strategies to Empower Your Healing
“It’s the place where dreams end and nightmares begin—it’s the world of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV).”
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“An abuser’s psychological diagnosis isn’t the problem. Their sense of entitlement is.”
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Conclusion
This quotes article is months in the making.
As a domestic violence victim, I have C-PTSD. Narcissistic abuse is very real!
Even if you were not with a narcissist and you experienced abuse of any kind, it is not your fault!
Throughout my life I have three long-term relationships. All of them ended in abuse. I have experienced all the forms of abuse from one partner to another.
Abuse stays with you and all I know from relationships is abuse.
It’s hard to get out of the abusive relationship and move on.
Some part of you always is trapped within your mind about the trauma you have been through.
Your experiences with abuse matter and you deserve to have the best in life. Free of abuse.
