dreaminggonewrong: stimmyabby: Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority” and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me …

To the people that say “you should respect your family”:

betterthandarkchocolate: Stop assuming that everyone has been treated well by that family. Respect is not freely given, it is earned. You don’t owe anyone respect. You do not owe anyone anything. This line is used repeatedly in abusive situations. It is frequently used in emotional abuse in the form of gaslighting to make the survivor doubt …

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