Have you ever felt like you were in a toxic relationship? I'm sure you have felt hurt, let down, and unworthy.
You're about to discover the shocking truth about toxic relationships, how to tell if you are in one, and most importantly what you can do to break the vicious cycle once and for all.
Here are some tips on how to tell if you are in a toxic relationship.
Do you have a partner who is constantly doing one or more of the following? 1.
Belittles you in front of friends and family, and even worse, around strangers.
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Says the words I love you, but their actions prove otherwise.
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Tries to control you by opening your mail or answering your cell phone.
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Tries to make you rely very heavily on them and do not like it when you are independent.
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Wants you to change things about you to make them happy.
Most people tend to get a little bit sick around people like that, so what would possess you to get into or stay in a toxic relationship? Why would anyone want to be with someone who plays with their emotions and hurts them so badly? Like most things, toxic relationships have a life cycle.
First comes the honeymoon phase, and if you are like me, is what sucks you right in.
Next comes an argument or all out war, and then the phase is a reconciliation.
Once it has gone full circle, it all snowballs and starts over at the honeymoon phase and so the cycle lives on.
When you first start dating someone and are extremely happy and excited and want to see them and be with them all the time, you are obviously in the honeymoon phase.
Things seem perfect and you are sure this is the one.
It's not until they've sucked you in just a little bit too much and you see how toxic they really are, and by that time it's too late to get out.
There are so many reasons why people cause or stay in toxic relationships.
A few reasons may be that they have grown up in that type of living situation and don't know anything else, or maybe they just don't feel like they deserve to have a healthy, loving relationship.
Others may just find a need to be a savior.
Most people stay in these relationships because they have low self esteem or issues with depression.
The first and most important thing to know is that you do have choices, and once you realize this you can start sticking up for yourself.
There is good news.
A lot of people can and do break the vicious cycles of these relationships, by leaving the relationship or repairing the one they're in and staying in it.
They can do this by going through therapy, learning to communicate and sometimes just giving each other some needed space.
The truth is a lot of these relationships can be saved and go on forever.
The first step you need to take is to make a firm decision that you must see the relationship improve, or you are willing to leave it and walk away from it.
Simply talk to your significant other and tell them what you need.
If you don't get what you are asking for, you need to be able to walk away and your partner needs to know this will be the consequence.
These are just a few of the secrets discovered about toxic relationships.