“He would tell me I was the best thing that ever happened to him. Then he started telling me I needed to lose weight and that my clothes were too revealing.
He said my parents were abusive and didn’t care about me; that he was the only one who truly cared about me.”“She told me that no one would believe me if I told them she was abusive.
She said girls can’t be abusive and that she was just reacting to me being abusive.”“The more my parents stopped me from seeing him, the more ways I found to see him.
It almost became like a challenge. He encouraged me to defy them.”These are glimpses into toxic relationships, as told to me by a few of my teen clients with ADHD.