Lauren DeStefano Quotes

I won’t snatch, harm, or scare to death people with you or use checking up on you as an excuse to cause trouble. You’re worse than my mother, Rachel.” “Mine, too,” Jenks muttered.

People who are in abusive relationships often don't realise it, but it slowly seems to build until you're trapped.

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.

I had a husband who, I'm convinced, was an undiagnosed manic depressive. He didn't treat me as if I had a brain - I was just this beautiful little doll he could show off.

I don't need handcuffs to enslave a woman.

An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.

I got a few Mrs. Bradys in my life.

She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror.

Why stay with him, he uses you just like a human punching bag?

There was humiliations, cruelty, abuse, violence. And they were all the time trying to put to fight the prisoners one against the other, filling us with wrong information about the others or giving privileges to some so that the others would feel jealous and would react. And I could see how they were manipulating us.

If you chose to be with an abusive man, a powerful, abusive man, it reflects something about who you are and what you want for yourself.

I didn't know that being in a relationship meant you had to be nice. I thought it meant you had to hack away at the other person until they were beaten down and then were too afraid to leave.

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.

I accused a woman of doing something behind my back when I knew that she hadn't, just to see if she loved me.

If mothers are our first teachers, then having a narcissistic one teaches us that human closeness is terrifying, and the world is a heartless, inconsistent place.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.

I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom have a rough time with my dad being very controlling, which is why I push back whenever I feel like someone is trying to box me in. It makes me run for the hills.

The real demon in my life is my father.