Self love: it doesn't mean that everyone will treat you the way you deserve to be treated. It means that you won't let them change the way you see yourself nor will you stick around for the to destroy you. - Tony A. Caskins. Jr.

The most attractive thing to me is effort. Someone who really wants to talk to me, seems, and make me a part of their day. - unknown

It makes no sense to stay in the hell of a toxic relationship so your children will be happy. All that will teach them is either to b fearful and guilty, or else t be become abusive themselves. - Annie Kaszhina

Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes. Notices the silicon. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You're doing just fine. - Charlotte Erikson

And he'll be angry. He'll call her a few names and tell anyone who will listen that she turned out to be this and she turned out to be that. But he will always conveniently forget to mention all of the real life shit that he did to her, and just how long she took it and even tried to make excuses for it, before she turned and became the this and the that - but you've got to understand that he is a coward; and that's just the type of shut that cowards to.