8 Reasons Why You Can’t Turn A Toxic Relationship Into A Healthy Partnership
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MadameNoire
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Real healing takes time
When toxic couples decide to try to “be better,” the idea behind it might be that they’re going to try to heal their wounds. There can be all sorts of wounds that make someone attracted to a toxic relationship. BMC Public Health reports that negative childhood experiences correlate with unhealthy adult relationships. The number of ways one can have negative childhood experiences and how those manifest in adulthood are limitless. Most importantly, that trauma takes a long time to truly heal. It can take years of consistent therapy. Toxic couples often think, “We’ll each go into therapy and…we’ll be good in a couple of months.” The patience for the real time this healing will take is typically not there.
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