This is how your toxic relationships have changed you

Bad relationships don’t just damage our trust. They change the way we see ourselves and the world around us.

E.B. Johnson | NLPMP | Editor
Practical Growth
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9 min readMar 29, 2021

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by: E.B. Johnson

Toxic relationships change us in more ways than one. Being damaged by a toxic partner teaches us that it isn’t safe to trust, but it also instills us with a number of other lessons too. When you are touched by toxic and all-consuming relationships that blow your world apart, you are left standing in the rubble of self-loathing, paranoia, and avoidance. Are you ready to get yourself back on track? You have to re-define what you want from love and commitment so you can pursue it with compassion and intention.

Toxic relationships change everything.

Have you finally come out on the other side of a dark and damaging relationship? Did your partner abuse you? Dismiss you? Or gaslight you right into a devastating heartbreak? Now is the time to get yourself back, but that’s hard in the wake of a toxic relationship. When we fall for toxic people, everything changes. Not only do we lose trust in others, but we lose trust in self too, and our ability to create relationships that are rewarding.

Toxic relationships change the way we

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E.B. Johnson | NLPMP | Editor
Practical Growth

NLPMP Coach | Writer & Content Creator | Sharing my knowedge with the world ⭐️ https://linktr.ee/ebjohnson01