

Sometimes you wouldn’t see it if it was lit with stadium floodlights.

To stay in a toxic relationship is to keep your hand hovering over the self-destruct button. What are the signs that I’m in a toxic relationship?īeing aware that the relationship is toxic is vital in protecting yourself from breakage. Sometimes the only thing left to do is to let go with grace and love and move on. Even worse, if your relationship is toxic, you will be more and more damaged by staying in it.įighting to hold on to something that is not fighting to hold on to you will ruin you. Perhaps they were never really there in the first place, or not in the way you needed them to be anyway. If the relationship is toxic, it is highly likely that all the fight in the world won’t change anything because one or both people have emotionally moved on.

Even worse, sometimes it’s not until you’re two kids and a mortgage into the relationship, that you realise something has been missing for a while, and that something is you. Love sends us to joyous, lofty heights that we never want to come down from, but the same heart that can send us into a loved-up euphoria can trip us up and have us falling into something more toxic. Wanna get some tequila baby?’) Some start off with promise and with all the right ingredients, but somewhere along the way, the right ingredients get replaced with resentment, jealousy, history and hurt. Sometimes I just, like, hold it in front of me and run backwards and pretend like she’s chasing me. I have plenty – in my wallet, as my screen saver, on my bedside table, at my mum’s house, on my desk, on my fridge and yeah, all over the place. Some relationships are all shades of wrong from the outset (‘Darlin’ you’re so pretty. We never know how things will look when each other’s less adorable, kind of awful habits start to show themselves publicly, or under the influence of alcohol or in-laws. Similarly, relationships that seem to begin strong because ‘omg we’re soooo in love you guys,’ can dissolve into nothing but ash and legal fees that could have bought a castle on the river Seine, if they weren’t being used to divide half your assets more ‘half-ly’. Strong, healthy, independent people can find themselves in the white-knuckled grip of a toxic relationship.

Toxic relationships will cause monumental breakage to people, families and workplaces, but they aren’t necessarily the territory of the weak, downtrodden or insecure.
