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Love Is For Those Who Know How To Say No
Who will destroy your life while smiling?
I spent years falling into the wrong arms.
Those arms that hug you tightly while slowly suffocating you, without you even noticing. You know that charming person who makes you feel guilty for pointing out their mistakes?
Or the one who turns any constructive criticism into a personal attack, making you question your own sanity?
These are precisely the people who seduce us most easily — and they’re also the ones we should avoid at all costs.
The truly toxic people are often the most charismatic, the most engaging, the ones who make us feel special… until they start showing who they really are. And when they do, we’re already emotionally handcuffed, unable to see reality clearly.
Have you noticed how the biggest manipulators are masters at making you doubt your own judgment?
They start with seemingly harmless comments: “You’re overreacting,” “You’re too sensitive,” “That’s not how it happened.” And before you know it, you no longer trust your own perceptions.
The pattern is always the same: seduction, subtle manipulation, progressive gaslighting. Like a frog in a pot of slowly heating water until it boils, you don’t realize you’re…