respect abuse victims who are angry. who want to break things and get violent urges and violently hate their abuser.
respect abuse victims who are scared. who can’t talk about it. who can’t tell anyone about it. whose abusers are a biggest fear.
respect abuse victims who love(d) their abusers. who are in a relationship, were, who were raised by their abusers. who can’t stop loving their abuser.
respect abuse victims who aren’t over it and never will be. respect abuse victims who don’t deal in healthy ways. respect abuse victims of all sorts, as long as they aren’t dealing with their abuse in a way that is harmful to others (ie racist, ableist, etc), there is no wrong way to cope or react to abuse
(Source: phinomenal)
