#toxic-relationships

#toxic-relationships

"You don't have to feel guilty for cutting someone off to protect yourself. Sometimes estranging someone is the healthiest thing you can do. It was for me."

"I went no-contact with my dad. He had always been emotionally manipulative, especially after my parents divorced when I was 9. But the last straw was when it was Christmas Break during my senior year of high school. I was supposed to spend Christmas with him, but I did not want to spend it with him. He then proceeded to CALL THE COPS ON ME. A 17-year-old."

It's never too early to learn that while it's good to think compassionately about what's happening to others, ultimately they own their behaviour and you own yours.

Martha and her elder brother Carl moving boxes around during the first eviction reveals their roles as pseudo-parents to their emotionally neglectful mother, Phyllis.

It's okay to let go of those who couldn't love you. Those who didn't know how to. Those who failed to even try. It's okay to outgrow them, because that means you filled the empty space in you with self-love instead.

One viral post, with almost five million views, shows someone scrolling through their ex-partner's unopened Snapchat messages from other women. "At least I was pinned," the TikToker joked in the caption.

Everything was torn to bits, Patrick said about Rodgers, who just signed a one-year contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

‘Living alone can be great, especially if the only alternative is to play the weaker sex to someone who needs to feel superior.’

Scott's assertions about Jesse's relationship with Michelle mask deeper issues, presenting her as a toxic influence while ignoring Jesse's own drastic behavior patterns.

A paradoxical defense is a deliberate, malicious act to create chaos, exploit others, and then falsely blame and vilify the target(s) to deflect attention.

Sometimes we just have to let other people's toxic families be toxic. There is an unhealthy dynamic between your spouse, your spouse's siblings, and their sister.