“Relationships take work.” Well yep, that’s true, but there IS a difference between two people working on a healthy relationship and people disguising emotional damage as effort. The latter leads to slowly becoming a shell of yourself. 🐚 All relationships have challenges. Hard conversations, disagreements and growing pains are normal. But if you constantly feel anxious, confused, or like you’re the only one trying to fix things, that’s not “just a rough patch.” That’s a red flag. 🚩 …
Do you ever find yourself pouring your heart out to someone and get met with the emotional equivalent of a blank Google Doc? 🥺 Yeah. That. Let’s talk about it. Most people are walking around like IKEA furniture – held together by a few screws and a prayer. 🙏 No therapy. No shadow work. No journaling. Not even a self-help podcast while doing dishes. Fuck all. So when you come in all self-aware and shit, emotionally intelligent, slightly unhinged (but…
I don’t watch MAFS generally but one of my friends was very insistent this week that I watch what’s unfolding with dickhead (whoops, I mean Adrian) and Awhina, so I set myself up a 9 now account and got stuck into some clips. 🤔 My friend started out as a client quite a while ago now and back then knew nothing about coercive control and domestic abuse. After quite a few sessions together, I’m proud to say she’s regularly…
It’s subtle at first, the way they change you. 💔 The way they pick on the things you wear. How you look. Who you hang out with. Criticising how you cook, how you clean, how you take the bins out. Telling you their friends think you’re “too much.” You’ve buried yourself in work, another thing they criticise you for. 😢 Work has become your respite, the place where you can be yourself. …