5 Essential Differences Between True Love and Toxic Love

Make sure you have these clocked.

Karen Nimmo
On The Couch
Published in
4 min readNov 3, 2020

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You’re in love — at least you think you are.

You can’t get enough of your new partner. You’ve never felt this way before — not even close. It’s heady, it’s intoxicating. It’s WOW.

But then you’re at dinner one night and your partner blows up over something you don’t really understand. It seems like a weird overreaction. You shrug it off.

But a week later, it happens again. You feel a ripple of unease but you shove it under the bed because your partner is so damn….everything.

What’s going on?

True Love v Toxic Love: the Essential Differences

“I was mad. I was bitter. I was angry. I was outraged. I was sad. I was hateful. I was hurt. I was in love. But I never let him take the best of me.” ― Dominic Riccitello

If you’ve experienced toxic love you’ll know all about this. You’ll have learnt the hardest way about toxic love, the anxiety it causes, the emotional scars it leaves.

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Karen Nimmo
On The Couch

Clinical psychologist, author of 4 books. Editor of On the Couch: Practical psychology for health and happiness. karen@onthecouch.co.nz