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Toxic relationships

Stories and advice pertaining to toxic romantic relationships, family relationships, and friendships, and estrangement.

Toxic romantic relationships

Relationships That Hurt: When Enough Is Enough

Nothing You Do Will Be Enough If the Relationship Isn’t Right

How to Leave a Toxic Relationship When You’re Still in Love

5 Signs You’re in a Toxic Relationship

When We Hold onto Relationships That Hurt Us

9 Tips for Anyone Who Dates Emotionally Unavailable People

Ending a Toxic Relationship: When It’s Time to Say “No More”

Why Loving Someone Isn’t Enough to Make It Work

How Emotional Pain Can Cause Us to Act “Crazy” in Relationships

Stop Attracting Unhealthy Relationships: 3 Promises to Make to Yourself

What Hurts Us the Most in Unhealthy and Unloving Relationships

How Being in a Toxic Relationship Changed My Life for the Better

How I Used Self-Help to Justify a Toxic Relationship and What I Now Know

How to Break the Cycle of Painful, Dramatic Relationships

7 Ways Childhood Trauma Shows Up in Your Romantic Relationships

The Agony of Anxious Attachment and How to Attract Better Relationships

How I Stopped Chasing Men Who Hurt Me and Found Healthy Love

10 Signs You’re in a Toxic, Unhealthy Relationship and How to Help Yourself

How I Found Peace and Self-Love After a Toxic Relationship

Why Belonging Is So Difficult for Survivors of Domestic Abuse

How to Spot Abusive People and Stop Getting into Toxic Relationships

Toxic friendships

Dealing with Toxic Friendships: Accepting, Forgiving, and Moving On

6 Helpful Things to Consider If You’re In an Unhealthy Friendship

Letting Go of Unhealthy Relationships and Rediscovering Yourself

The Friend I Couldn’t Fix: A Story of Love, Loss and Letting Go

The Allure of Unhealthy, One-Sided Friendships and How I’ve Let Them Go

Toxic family relationships

Simple Truths About Toxic Mothers I Wish I Knew Growing Up

How to Have a Peaceful Mother’s Day with a Difficult Mother

5 Ways to Cope with Family Bullies

How to Heal from Gaslighting and Stop Hurting Yourself

How to Recognize and Overcome Dysfunction in Your Family

How I Healed My Strained Relationship with My Addict Mother

How I’ve Stopped Letting My Unhealed Parents Define My Worth

You Can Be the Cycle Breaker: 9 Ways to Heal After Childhood Trauma

Ending My Toxic Relationship with My Mother Was an Act of Self-Love

Hurt by Negative People? How to Stop Taking Things Personally

Surviving a Dysfunctional Relationship: What I Wish I Knew and Did Sooner

Estrangement

The Closure in Accepting That They May Never Change

When the People We Love Shut Us Out: What I Now Understand

Dear Parent of an Estranged Adult: What Might Repair Your Relationship

How to Cope with a Toxic and Estranged Family Relationship

The Day I Found Out from the Internet my Estranged Father Had Died

Dear Estranged Adult: You Are Strong and Worthy of Love

Family Estrangement: 3 Stories and the Advice You Need to Hear

What My Parents Did to Me and Why I Cut Them Out of My Life

Family Isn’t Always Forever: When It’s Time to Say Goodbye

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