It’s wonderful to embrace each other’s flaws in a relationship, but there’s a difference between tolerating inevitable differences and tolerating toxicity. The former can strengthen an existing bond, while the latter leads to self-destruction.
It doesn’t matter what’s going on in their lives. If they can’t make time for you, it’s because they won’t. No exceptions.
The children of narcissistic parents grow up in an invisible war zone and are programmed to self-destruct in these five devastating ways.
If I didn’t stop drinking, I was going to wind up taking my life, either intentionally or accidentally.
Commitment means you are willing to make sacrifices to them, you are willing to move around your schedule for them, you are willing to sort them at the top of your priorities list.
She might look at herself and hold onto to a lot of baggage from her past but when she meets the right person they teach her other people’s problems aren’t hers to carry so heavy and she never deserved to be their emotional punching bag.
It only took eight dates before I fell in love with him. And ten dates for me to lose my virginity.
When someone thinks love is something they have to earn it’s often emotional abuse which is the fundamental ground level of what will be an unstable person filled with unstable relationships in the future.
Sometimes being in the right relationship is simply making minor tweaks to your already established relationship.
“Love isn’t supposed to be painful. Let yourself feel whatever it is you feel and get through it – there is joy to be had. Loneliness is not a good reason to invite toxic people back into your life.”
A narcissist checks it off as a win because everything is about keeping score with them
“My mom held my little sister’s hand over a gas stove because she stole Skittles from our kitchen.”
