Women Often Fall for These Traps and Regret Them Later
We fail to recognize them, even as we fall right into them.
Looking back it felt exciting being young and in love. I fell in love with every cute smile that caught my attention but was quick to fall out of it at the first sign of bad behavior.
I spent my late twenties and early thirties juggling relationships that fell under the same pattern.
We start out madly in love, then love fades, we argue, we grow apart and it ends unceremoniously.
Most of these relationships should have ended sooner than they did but I didn’t have the mental fortitude to end them when I should.
In the beginning, I thought they were “the one” but they turned out to be cruel, self-centered or unserious. Some of these relations left me with scars and questioned my self-esteem.
So many times we think by not leaving a bad relationship, by trying to make it work, we are building the courage to handle the challenges that come with marriage.
Every time I get hit with the reality when they gaslight me or disappear for a while, I would excuse their behavior. “He will come around,” I’d say to myself. “Maybe he’s having a bad day, ” “He’s being good to me. I will give me another chance.”
