Know When It’s Broken |Abusive Relationship Aftermath
See if you can relate. You love them to bits, you cling to every significant happy memory you have created together, and you hope it’s just a rough patch.
Hope is a keyword here. Hope is mighty and takes people places. But there is hope and there is action. Hope might be able to prolong the agony and give it another chance…and another one and forth so until things are genuinely ugly.
Action, however, is a truly rough gesture of surgical interruption, cutting through a tumour with no anaesthetic, hurting everything that is on the way without intention but with severe determination.
Both are toxic, both will leave an unforgettable print on your soul, and both will teach you a lesson. Here are a few symptoms to notice and take into consideration:
- It’s competition over partnership
- Small things don’t matter anymore
- Insults progress
- Priorities change
- Laughter is gone – this river has dried out
- Gadgets take over along with Social Media
- Eyes Wander
The thing is, sometimes people seep into our lives and poison things with their own illnesses. But it’s just their illnesses, not ours. It takes a lot of strength to walk away from something that you are so invested in (financially, socially and emotionally).
The fact that you can do that is proof that you are someone of value. Here is my message to you, I hope you know that you are valuable and worthy of love, affection and success. In some of the wisest words I have ever said to myself – one of the strongest people I know: “Not my monkeys, not my circus!”
In the end. Never stop wearing your soul exposing gear. Carry on.
