“Know that you did all you could to save the relationship. And now it’s time to save yourself.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“You are a person of value. And if you aren’t treated with value, you need to be strong enough to walk away.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“Life is too fragile to settle for a partner who is abusive, for a connection that is one-sided, for being with someone who sucks the energy and happiness from you on a daily basis. You are a person of value. You deserve care. You deserve respect.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“Lose him by walking away and realizing all the love you need resides inside your heart. Lose him by believing that you are worth more than what he offers you and the way he treats you.”— Liane White, thoughtcatalog.com
“Lose him when he causes you to fall out of love with yourself. Lose him when you start wishing you can be someone else, someone he would love.”— Liane White, thoughtcatalog.com
“Lose him when he treats you like his girlfriend behind close doors and sees right past you in public.”— Liane White, thoughtcatalog.com
“Don’t wait around for someone to appreciate you. Don’t wait around for someone to change. Never hope that if you stay for a bit more, he’ll look at you differently.”— Sam Millendo, thoughtcatalog.com
“Be a woman who knows when to leave houses, marriages, and relationships, because it doesn’t feels like home anymore.”— Jillian Bacarisas, thoughtcatalog.com
“Leave. Even if it will shake your knees and core, because you know you will cry, but you will not die. It will be painful, but it will not destroy you. Because you know deep down inside your tired soul, that your happiness will be worth it.”— Jillian Bacarisas, thoughtcatalog.com
“If that asshole is treating you like a piece of shit, leave.”— Jillian Bacarisas, thoughtcatalog.com
“If you find yourself apologizing all the time for things you know you shouldn’t have to feel guilty about, it might be the wrong relationship for you.”— Summar Abdelnour, thoughtcatalog.com
“If someone makes you doubt yourself, if someone makes you feel like you’re too much to handle or you’re hard to live with, ask yourself if it’s really you or is it because that person is incapable of loving you? Is this person just making excuses because they’re looking for a way out? Is this person…”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Love isn’t manipulation. Love isn’t control. Love isn’t confusion or high intense emotions of screaming and fighting but all you see is making up.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“When he’s the last thing you need, he’ll drain you. He’ll exhaust you. He’ll destroy you. And you won’t see it that way. In fact, you won’t notice it at all. But everyone else will.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“But oftentimes the person you want most is the last one you need. When he’s the last thing you need, you’ll find yourself hurt and disappointed. When he’s the last thing you need, you’ll find yourself confused.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“Love should build you up, not tear you down. Love should fill you, not drain you. Love should make you feel alive, not suffocate you. Love should make you want to be a better person, not constantly make you tear yourself apart.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“You can love each other with all your heart but the pain you cause each other from loving so deeply isn’t healthy – it’s painful and poisonous, and it will rip your world apart.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“You should be alone, truly alone, without him in your life at all. Put the phone down, don’t text him, don’t stalk him on social media, don’t answer if he calls.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“Normal relationships aren’t screaming and fighting and royally fucking with you.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“I’d be lying if I said, ‘I will always love you’ because at some point you stop loving the people who hurt you.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com