8 Reasons Why You Can’t Turn A Toxic Relationship Into A Healthy Partnership - Page 5
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Some acts cannot be forgotten
There are also all of the small, toxic acts that go on in these types of relationships that are hard to forget. There might have been years of score-keeping, getting revenge, spying on each other, lying to each other, and betraying each other. You can both say you’d like to wipe the slate clean, but you’ll always have that knee-jerk reaction when your partner does anything that resembles that old behavior. If there was infidelity, you may freak out when he simply takes a phone call in another room. If you withheld sex as a power move, he may think you’re doing that again on the nights you’re genuinely not in the mood. It’s hard to just forget years of unhealthy behavior.
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