You don’t have to take abuse from anyone. No-one deserves to be abused. You are allowed to walk away, to stick up for yourself, to say “I understand that you are hurting, but I can’t allow it to hurt me in return.”
Source: Hurt people hurt people @ My So-Called Chaos: Life, love, and Everyday Insanity.
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