Before you let someone in.
Before you allow someone to tear you down slowly, but definitively.
Before someone starts talking down to you.
Irina Iriser
Before someone starts making you question yourself.
Maybe you just met them.
Maybe you cant believe how lucky you are to be starting a relationship with them.
You wonder how this person can actually be so into you.
But sometimes the butterflies arent butterflies.
Sometimes its your gut.
Telling you to run.
Telling you to get out.
Because you thinking it might be too good to be true, is 100 percent accurate.
Sometimes theyre not butterflies.
Sometimes its your bodys way of telling you to get out.
To leave before youre in too deep.
Before you get deeply hurt.
Before someone diminishes all you important relationships because they want control.
Before you stop doing the things you love.
before you get going to change who you are.
All to make someone else happy.
Sometimes we get pulled in quickly.
Just to be have our world unravel.
And while the hurt may start out gradually, eventually youll wonder how you got here.
How did you allow someone to control your life?
You dont know how you got here, or how to leave.
Every day becomes a struggle.
To be who you are.
To just this person.
To try not to anger this person.
Because emotional manipulation is a real thing.
At a point youre so far in.
In hindsight, you should have seen this coming.
You dodged friends and family who may have warned you.
Maybe they were jealous.
They didnt get it.
You hate to admit that they were right.
Until you absolutely have to get out.
Before your life depends on it.
Because sometimes theyre not butterflies.
Sometimes theyre warning signs.
Warning signs that make your heart beat faster.
They make you lose your breath.
Eventually youll learn the difference between butterflies and toxicity.
Butterflies arent always butterflies.
Sometimes its the very opposite.
