Dude! Blocked You Right! Now Stop Coming In My Dreams!! Urghh

"You're a horrible daughter, a failure just like your father!"

Narcissists like to deflect their own flaws and make others feel like shit. I am a well educated, successful financial independent female always trying to be there and help out at home. So frustrating dealing with this! 😑

“The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood.”

— Ralph Nichols (via quotefeeling)

“I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself.”

— Herman Hesse

Love is within you, if it is not, then develop it..Until you don't love yourself, you won't be able to love some else...

We don't need to find happiness anywhere else if we have it within ourselves!!

“He liked lonely places, because he never really felt alone.”

— Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

The world is kinder than it seems from the view of your abusive relationships.

I know it doesn't seem like it. It seems scary, and stressful, and unfair, and terrifying beyond belief. Maybe you were fed lies about what the world is like - abusers can go above and beyond to keep you depended on them, to keep you afraid. Maybe you were hurt, badly, by malice or by negligence of the masses.

But remember that the world is also large. And even if your family, school, work or hometown is cruel, there's kindness elsewhere. There are people who will listen. There are people who will believe and who will do their best to help.

You might not be ready to trust the world, to give some kindness to it, and that okay. Understandable, even. But.. I want you to remember that kindness and happiness do exist, and you'll sure as hell find yours.

“Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just… start.”

— Ijeoma Umebinyuo

The dark mess that I am!