159 Quotes About Toxic-relationships

Don’t confuse “familiar” with “acceptable”. Toxic relationships can fool you like that.

Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.

LAST WORDYou made me laugh,And I forgot all the tears.You helped me up,And I forgot the timesYou let me down.You were hatred,Just as surely asYou were love.You were everything rightAnd everything wrong—Humility andDefiance,CrueltyAnd kindness,Approval andContempt.You were everythingAnd nothing.I had to let you go,And it freed me.Still, I’m sad,For I knowWho you might have been.I know you so well…But you do not know me.

When an idea comes into my mind from someone, I reason with it. I do not just swallow it hook, line and sinker. I question, ‘Will it help me get to a better place with a family member?’ If it doesn’t, I reject the idea.

How can we not be dooms to each other?

Oh God, that conversation last night or this morning or whenever that devil-ridden scrap of nightmare had been. How could two rational beings go on and on simply saying the same awful things to each other week after week, month after month?

Oh what an ill fate it was that has made me love that man.

Why am I driving myself crazy trying to figure out why you keep hurting me? I’m not the “Narcissist Whisperer”. If you want to poison your own life, fine… But I’m done letting you poison mine.

Her gaze turned distant. 'Have you ever heard of the arsenic eaters?'Alex blinked, confused. 'No?''They would ingest a little bit of arsenic every day. It made their skin clear and their eyes bright and they felt wonderful. And all the while they were just drinking poison.' When Mira turned her eyes back to Alex, they were sharper and steadier than Alex ever remembered them being, free of the usual determined cheer. 'That's what being with your father was like.