How I Got Out of a Toxic Relationship
Toxic relationships need to be filed under the same category as opium drugs.
Days, weeks, months could pass. You could be on the verge of finally leaving, finally quitting, but then they give you the hit that you were craving - they tell you that you look nice. They tell you how much they love you and that they're so sorry for putting you down the other day. They tell you that you're their best friend and that no one else is their for them quite like you. This pulls you through another couple days, weeks, months. You swear you are going to leave this time. You're fed up. That's it. You finally build up the courage to tell them you're leaving, they even let you leave. But then you get a phone call - it's them, crying. "All I had was you...how could you leave me?" they say. So what do you do? You go back, because this is your fault and you're the problem...and so we are back to square one.