You’re choosing to stay with someone who shows you how insignificant your feelings are and how flimsy your opinions are. You’re choosing to stay with someone who more often than not disappoints you instead of showing up for you.

Your communication is never received with respect and understanding and your boundaries are always taken lightly. You get used to a certain destructive pattern and somehow it becomes your normal.

The only thing you’re getting out of your toxic relationship is pain because if it’s destroying, it’s not love and if it’s suppressing who you really are, it’s not love and if it’s always bringing out the worst in you, it’s not love.

Maybe it’s infatuation, maybe it’s unhealthy attachment and maybe it’s codependency but it’s not love. If it involves a great deal of manipulation and emotional abuse then it’s not love. If it’s putting you through hell, it’s not love.