There was a time in my younger years that I honestly believed that love would be enough to make a relationship work. #naive So when the red flags started appearing in my relationships, I ignored them because I honestly believed that love would overcome any issue. 🚩 I was wrong: love isn’t enough. 🥺 Especially when you’re in love with someone who isn’t right for you. Who can’t communicate and isn’t willing to work on themselves. Who doesn’t love…
Have you ever noticed how easy it is to spot when your mate is self-sabotaging themselves, but how when it’s you doing the same thing, you justify your behaviour? 🤔 You tell yourself you’re just keeping the peace, “letting it go”, “being chill” or compromising, being kind or “holding space”. But are you actually just abandoning yourself by people-pleasing, letting them walk all over you and having shitty boundaries? You abandon yourself every time you: 🌀 Say yes when…
A codependent relationship is a love addiction where we seek to prove our worth by helping people with broken wings.We’re drawn to addicts and under-functioners who’ll depend on us emotionally, financially or in some other way.Many of us who find ourselves in this kind of relationship have a history of neglect, abuse, or family addiction in our childhood.If we aren’t allowed to show our feelings to the adults around us, or how we felt wasn’t validated, this leads to limiting…