Boundaries

There are relationships that look like love on the outside.They may even feel like love—sometimes. But if your ability to tell the truth threatens your safety, your sense of peace, …

✦ by WeSurviveAbuse.com In courtroom after courtroom, from high-profile celebrity trials to quietly buried local cases, a deeply disturbing pattern emerges:Abusers and traffickers often demand to be called certain names. …

They’ll say you’re angry now.That you’re bitter.That you’ve changed. And you have changed.But not in the way they’re trying to spin it. You’re not bitter.You’re just no longer naive. You’re …

There comes a point in your healing when you get tired.Not just tired of the pain—But tired of the explaining.Tired of the justifying.Tired of repeating the truth to people who …

Can we romanticizing reconciliation with people who ridiculed your pain? If they laughed when you were gasping for air—If they rolled their eyes when you tried to explain the harm—If …

You were never too much.You were too awake. You noticed what others pretended not to see.You named what others stayed quiet about.You asked the questions that made liars uncomfortable.You felt …

They called you difficult.Unreasonable.Too sensitive.Hard to love. But what they really meant was:You stopped making it easy for them to mistreat you. You stopped laughing at disrespect.You stopped minimizing the …

There are furious debates about this behind closed doors. Personally, the older that I get, the more conservative I tend to be with my energy flow. At the heart of …

🖤 WeSurviveAbuse.com Survivors should not be met with interrogation, suspicion, or scorn.They should not have to fight to be believed while the abuser enjoys your benefit of the doubt. Every …

🖤 WeSurviveAbuse.com The internet is full of people who think that offering opinions on a Survivor’s choices is the same as offering help.It’s not. You weren’t there.You didn’t live it.And …