Lisa Unger Quotes

It doesn't take a bruise or a broken bone for a child to be a victim of domestic violence. Kids who witness domestic violence are victims, too.

There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.

No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.

My father was actually controlling and abusive.

There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially.

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

Parental child abduction is child abuse.

What is real is that adultery destroys tens of thousands of families every year across America. What is real is that adultery scars tens of thousands of children emotionally and psychologically every year. What is real is that adultery is an open wound in a relationship which more often than not overflows into domestic violence or worse.

I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand.

I read 'Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them,' and I found frightening pieces that related to... my own life.

Domestic violence is much more prevalent than people realize.

I was abused my family was the "brady bunch

Domestic violence was a way of life in my home growing up, my brother and I watched helplessly numerous times as my mother was beaten and knocked unconscious while we dialed 911.

An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

My father told me abuse is generational.

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.

My husband worked on Wall Street and was an Ivy League graduate as well. In our world, we were the last couple you'd imagine enmeshed in domestic violence.

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

I'm a private victim of a peculiar household.

I'd rather be on my own than be with a violent man.