Joe Flaherty Quotes

It was as if something snapped in two deep inside me. My parents-- the people I’d loved the most in the world, the ones I’d always told all my secrets to, the ones I’d wanted to hide with far away from the rest of the world. They had lied, and I couldn’t imagine why. It couldn’t possibly matter why.

I grew up with an extremely abusive father. As a mother, I wanted to protect my own children from exposure to violence. When I found out one of my daughters was in an abusive relationship, it broke my heart. Finally, she left him ?- but only after his abuse started spreading to the children.

I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend [Billy Bob Thorton] got married, and I've never heard from him again.

I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.

That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother.

I'm the one who got hit by that car, not you,' I tell him. 'Don't act like you're the victim here. You made choices I didn't ask you to make. I'm not sure anyone asked you to make them.' I'm screaming the words, not caring that the entire world can probably hear me. 'You think I like limping everywhere I go? I don't. I'm the victim! Be honest with me! You didn't care about me enough to trust me. I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.

Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.

Betrayal does so many different things to people.

I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.

Infidelity is horrible - there's nothing worse than that; it's devastating.

I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!'

My first husband was a serial cheater.

It's very difficult to think that you're with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you don't know them: it turns out that they betray you. It's painful, but it's best to turn the page.

For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.

On September 11, 2015, only hours before my mother passed away, I learned that the man I planned to build a life with was a convicted felon and con artist whose criminal career spans more than 25 years.

A lot of people have experienced a relationship betrayal, even if it was when they were 16 and with their first love.

All the kids in school taunted me, 'Your dad's going to jail,' and I believed my parents when they said no it wouldn't happen. Then one day I was driving into school with him, which was weird because my mom always took us. And he was like, 'yeah, I'm going to jail.'

The people you are supposed to be able to trust the most is your family, and when that trust is broken, it's painful.

Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind - because if you can't trust your family to love you and protect you, who can you really trust?

It's so inspiring to be able to look a child in the eyes and just shake their hands and see the disbelief that this is actually happening.

There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

The fake slap invariably makes contact, adding the elements of shock and betrayal to what had previously been plain old-fashioned fear.

I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds." ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love

When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.