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"It’s hardest for immigrant parents considering they’ve come here 20 odd years ago with the mindset of what India was back then. They’ve had to adapt and evolve their mentality to give us independence whilst ensuring we don’t lose our roots, culture and values, and I think to a certain extent they’ve been successful in this balancing act. I know how much they’ve done for us and continue to do without asking for anything in return, I just want to make them proud."

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What I remember most about emotional abuse is that it’s like being put in a box. How you end up in there is the biggest trick – I never managed to work that one out. Maybe you think it’s a treasure box at first: you’re in there because you’re special. Soon the box starts to shrink. Every time you touch the edges there is an “argument”. So you try to make yourself fit. You curl up, become smaller, quieter, remove the excessive, offensive parts of your personality – you begin to notice lots of these. You eliminate people and interests, change your behaviour. But still the box gets smaller. You think it’s your fault. The terrible, unforgivable too-muchness of you is to blame. You don’t realise that the box is shrinking, or who is making it smaller. You don’t yet understand that you will never, ever be tiny enough to fit, or silent enough to avoid a row

It’s time to make emotional abuse a crime - Lauren Laverne (via ninja-suffragette)

people under someone else’s control are hard to reach. they’re conditioned to find fault in themselves. on top of that, any urge they might have to seek help doesn’t translate to action because they see themselves as nuisances who aren’t worth the time of anyone who might help. this is because one of the main tools of the emotional manipulator is to make their victim feel as if they are truly lucky to have found such a great situation & that they won’t be able to find anything better, that they don’t deserve it. they cut off every source of positive input in their victim’s life so their only remaining source of emotional gratification is their abuser. this gives them bargaining power and creates an addiction to security (that the victim is now convinced they can’t find elsewhere). it’s truly the work of hateful, self-serving cowards.

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