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He’ll be the guy that picks you up when you’ve had a little too much to drink. He’ll be the guy that texts you that you’re beautiful just because. He’ll be the guy that holds you because he knows that’s when you feel the safest.

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The lesson I choose to take from this is this: when someone shows you their true colors, see them.

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“I love you,” she would text sporadically; just to make sure she still had a hold on me.

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No Contact is the key that locks out that person from ever entering our heart, mind, and spirit in any palpable way again.

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These five powerful and practical tips can help save your life after emotional abuse.

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You look for flaws. Absolutely any flaws you can find and even sometimes clutch at straws.

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When the relationship was gone, it was just you and I left. I didn’t know you as well as I thought I did, and I think you could say the same for me.

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And just like a moth so drawn to the flame, you burned.

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I was afraid of being in love again. The fear of not being good enough. The fear being blind again. I never want to go back to that place again.

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There was so many times I should have left. I should have just walked away and gotten away from you. I couldn’t. You had this power over me that I will never truly understand.