When you’re in a toxic relationship for too long, you lose touch with your morals.
You lose touch with your standards.
You lose touch with reality.
Milly Cope
They will blur the lines between good and bad, between acceptable and unacceptable.
When youre in a toxic relationship for too long, youll rationalize every little thing that goes wrong.
Youll twist reality for fit your narrative.
You might think of jealousy as cute.
You might think of screaming as natural.
When youre in a toxic relationship for too long, you think of the wrong things as romantic.
You assume its normal to have more bad days than good days.
When youre in a toxic relationship for too long, you get cynical.
You figure theyre something people only say when theyve never been in a serious, passionate relationship before.
They just dont talk about it.
When youre in a toxic relationship for too long, you stop havingdealbreakers.
You lower the bar more and more each week.
You let your person get away with murder and stick around in the name of love.
You tell yourself relationships are hard work.
You tell yourself youre a fighter who would never give up on someone they love.
You tell yourself youre doing the right thing.
You dont even realize youre lying to yourself.
When youre in a toxic relationship for too long, you develop toxic traits of your own.
You might feel justified in your actions because youre not doing anything worse than your person has done.
Compared to them, youre a saint.
They dont have the right to complain.
Not when theyve been acting the way theyve been acting.
When youre in a toxic relationship for too long, you lose touch with your morals.
You lose touch with your standards.
You lose touch with reality.
When youre in a toxic relationship for too long, it warps the way you think about love.
It makes you think the constant fighting and cheating and lying is normal.
It makes you think this is the way all relationships end up after enough time.
It makes you think you have it as good as its going to get.
