11/29/2024
A toxic relationship is like a slow poison; it doesn’t hit you all at once. At first, it’s easy to overlook the small things—an offhand comment that makes you second-guess yourself, a shift in tone that makes you feel smaller, and then the constant feeling of walking on eggshells. You might tell yourself it's not that bad, that it’ll get better, or that you're just overthinking which minimizes their actions. But over time, those small toxic behaviors begin to seep into your thoughts and actions, and you don’t realize how much they’ve drained you until it’s already too deep. Like poison, it works quietly, breaking you down slowly until the damage is harder to see, and even harder to undo. By then, you're left wondering how long it’s been there, and how much of you has been lost in the process.