Member-only story
The Six Symptoms of a Toxic Relationship
Sometimes we find ourselves in a situation with someone that is less than ideal. It’s not as easy-going, there’s an abnormal amount of resentment and we at the very least think how much better the relationship could be if the other person was different.
But we don’t leave because we think that maybe it’s all in our heads. Hell, maybe we’re the problem and the other person is the one suffering. How can we know for sure that our situation is a bad one?
We can use the five symptoms of a toxic relationship below to gauge whether or not we’re in a dangerous situation.
1. Trust issues
If you have two chairs in front of you and one of those chairs has a dodgy leg, you know which chair to sit in. You would not trust that the chair with the bad leg would be able to support you. You know that you’ll fall and possibly hurt yourself.
Chairs are made to support you, and in a way, so are humans. Humans are made to support one another. We can’t do everything by ourselves. We need people. I may cook my own meals but I need farmers to harvest the food. I may drive my own car but I need people to assemble it and test its safety.
So if there is someone close to you that cannot support you, it is natural to have trust issues. From the opposite perspective…
