40 phrases about toxic relationships to reflect on and free yourself

If the relationship makes you more unhappy than happy, eliminate it from your life.

Abusive relationships exist because our society is toxic and teaches us that love hurts. Why does love have to hurt?

The idea of ​​unattainable and unrealistic masculinity is one of the things that drive many men to be toxic with women.

After I left you, I never went to sleep crying again.

When I learned to love myself, I put myself first and freed myself from all the relationships that held me back and kept me from growing.

Fairy tales deceive us with the idea of ​​a “happily ever after” without saying that, to be truly happy, you need a lot of dialogue and respect. It’s not a magic formula!

People who say “sorry, I’m going to change” don’t always really change.

We often fall into a toxic relationship because we have so few models of what a truly healthy relationship would look like.

I gave myself completely out of love. He always wanted more. Until I exhausted myself and realized: all that love should have come whole for me, just for me.

If it doesn’t add up, add it up.

The only thing that should move two people to stay together must be the free will to be together.

We shouldn’t feel guilt, fear or insecurity in a healthy relationship. If we feel that way, and there is no opening for dialogue, be suspicious. This relationship may not be so good.

We cannot live each other’s lives. Only our life belongs to us.

Sometimes people cling to each other for a kind of feedback loop of insecurities.

Don’t romanticize the phrase “I need you”. There are many things we need without love or affection involved.

Don’t let anyone dim your light and your joy. Radiate!

You are under no obligation to accept the characteristics of the other that only hurt you. You have to seek your happiness.

“You’ll never find someone who loves you like I do” – and I don’t even want to! I want someone who loves me without trying to change me.

Why be with someone if not to be happy?

When you say you accept someone for who they are, do you really accept it or do you tolerate it? Do you accept or want to mold it?

The person can start with simple things, controlling their clothes, their schedules. Then it starts to control who you talk to, your friendships. If you don’t act soon, you will control your entire life.

I want to be with someone I don’t need: I want to want to be there, not need.

Emotional blackmail is one of the worst forms of abuse as it makes you look like the wrong and cruel person in the relationship.

In the same land healthy plants and weeds can grow. It is important to know which ones to cultivate and which ones to root out.

You don’t have to hit people to treat them brutally.

Octavia E. Butler

Repeat after me: you are not responsible for the happiness of the other. Take a deep breath. Repeat as many times as you need, until you believe.

Sometimes mothers and fathers are so dependent on their children to feel complete that they do not allow them to leave the nest to fly on their own.

Don’t close the doors to those who just want to open their eyes.

If the person you’re with is always putting up flaws in your friends, it’s best to think about whether that person is really the best person for you.

Don’t give up your freedom and autonomy for what, at a given moment, you think is “love”.

Loving yourself gives you the strength to keep bad energies out.

The person arrives and, all of a sudden, wants to control everything: their clothes, their friends, their social networks. If she didn’t like you as you were before, why did she come to you?

If you have to swallow your crying and anger without having the space to talk about it, this relationship may not be so healthy.

Remember: just saying you love isn’t enough – it’s important that the relationship really adds something to your life.

Saying “you’re crazy” is not a healthy form of dialogue.

Don’t accept that anyone makes you feel like a wrong, unworthy, bad person. You have your own perfection.

The first person on the list of who should not continue in your life is: the one who does not rejoice in his achievements.

The idea that you can’t get in the way of other people’s relationships only serves to maintain bad relationships. Drop the spoon yes!

I realized our relationship was bad when I did the math on how many nights I went to bed crying because of you. They were almost all.

If one person doesn’t trust another enough to have to watch over them, is it healthy for them to stay together?