I Am An Abusive Person.

Addicted to Recovery: The Interactive Memoir

I’ve had to come to terms with the fact that I am an abuser. There is someone in my life that for years I’ve been abusing mentally, emotionally, and physically. I also neglected her, endangered her and left her vulnerable to the abuse of other people. Beyond that, I was so convinced for much of this time that she deserved it, or even that it was for her own good, that I was teaching her a lesson, that I didn’t recognize I was doing anything wrong.
The only reason I'm not in jail is because the person I was abusing was... myself. Why is it that we think it’s OK to to do and say things to ourselves that we would never dream of saying to someone we cared about, or even someone we don’t particularly like? And what do we do when these patterns of behaviour and thinking persist, even when we know better?
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