TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS/LIFE LESSONS

How You Can Leave a Toxic Relationship Behind and Live Your Life

It will take willpower and self-esteem

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HAVE YOU EVER FOUND YOURSELF WALLOWING IN A TOXIC RELATIONSHIP?

You know you love someone and are sure they love you, too.

But incidents keep happening that feels unhealthy and abnormal.

What is going on?

You tell yourself:

Nothing is perfect.
Life has its ups and downs.
Into each life, a little rain must fall.
Good days come and go.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Never give up.

But something is wrong. In the back of your mind, a puzzle piece is missing.

And it starts to eat away at you.

You begin to think you have to get out.

According to research by Karen Young in Hey Sigmund, breaking away from a toxic relationship can feel like tearing at barbed wire with bare hands. The more you do it, the more it hurts, so for a while, you stop tearing until you realize that it’s not the tearing that hurts…