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The abuser does not believe, however, that his level of authority over the children should be in any way connected to his actual level of effort or sacrifice on their behalf, or to how much knowledge he actually has about who they are or what is goin...

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

The central attitudes driving the Drill Sergeant are: I need to control your every move or you will do it wrong. I know the exact way that everything should be done. You shouldn’t have anyone else — or any thing else — in your life besides me. ...

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

The central attitudes driving the Demand Man are: It’s your job to do things for me, including taking care of my responsibilities if I drop the ball on them. If I’m unhappy about any aspect of my life, whether it has to do with our relationship o...

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

One of the obstacles to recognizing chronic mistreatment in relationships is that most abusive men simply don’t seem like abusers. They have many good qualities, including times of kindness, warmth, and humor, especially in the early period of a re...

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Although the typical abusive man works to maintain a positive public image, it is true that some women have abusive partners who are nasty or intimidating to everyone. How about that man? Do his problems result from mistreatment by his parents? The a...

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Have you ever heard a woman claim that the reason why she is chronically mistreating her male partner is because a previous man abused her? I have never run into this excuse in the fifteen years I have worked in the field of abuse. Certainly I have e...

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Disrespect also can take the form of idealizing you and putting you on a pedestal as a perfect woman or goddess, perhaps treating you like a piece of fine china. The man who worships you in this way is not seeing you; he is seeing his fantasy, and wh...

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing isn't easy and everything you produce won't be a best seller, but you must write anyway. You have to write because you love it, because it fuels you, ...

Nancy Arroyo Ruffin

One of the questions that surprised me most was this: “Mommy, if Jesus comes to live inside my heart, will I explode?” “No!” I proclaimed as the children and I headed to the Nile River for a few of them to be baptized that day. Then I thought...

Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

Only God satisfies. ONLY GOD SATISFIES. Let this truism settle down deep inside your heart. It is the unveiled truth. Feed this truth to your spirit. Force it down and command it to chase down, repel, and extricate all lies the Devil has successfully...

Cheryl Zelenka

But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

People always had one kind of animal or another inside them.

The Coming Storm

I walked inside and paused for a moment to breathe in the scent of paper and dust—the perfumes of knowledge.

Drink Deep

There was a necklace inside. A thin silver chain with a small pendant, a silver pansy.

Eleanor & Park

... your heart is your soul twinkling in the black firmament inside you...

A Familiar Rain

... this longing inside me that never goes away, must be a poem...must be you ...

A Familiar Rain

My insides feel like they are crumbling like a towering JENGA game. I lose.

Grounding Quinn

It is not always what we do, Sa'han, but who we love that makes us who we are. Quen

The Hollows Insider

Even a deep chick like me needed to have a shallow spot somewhere inside.

Bleeding Hearts

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Pearl S. Buck

Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.

Jerry Saltz