regurgitation-imminent:

myprettynightmare:

Anyone else terrified that they are toxic and manipulative and just can’t see it? Or is that just me?

A lot of people who’ve been abused think this. It’s very common for abusers to try to convince their victims that they, in some small part, deserve the abuse.

And a common way of doing that is to frame the defensive tactics of the victim as bad, manipulative things.