“Their partner talks down to them or shares hurtful or embarrassing stories about them in public.”— Kelsey Borresen, huffpost.com
“Pull over right now, I can't keep this down. I'm so fucking tired of you. All those things I loved will never make up for that shit you put me through.”— Jaira Burns, open.spotify.com
“A little crazy from the start, fires like this can tear the world apart. I'd rather take a hit and fall than never fuck it up with you at all.”— Jaira Burns, open.spotify.com
“Yeah, baby, trust me, this could get ugly, but that means it's fucking good, real fucking good.”— Jaira Burns, open.spotify.com
“I am figuring out which parts of my personality are mine and which ones I created to please you.”— Lora Mathis, loramathis.com
“Even being alone it's better than sitting next to your lover and feeling lonely.”— Julie Delpy, Celine, amazon.com
“As long as you continue to react so strongly to them, you give them the power to upset you, which allows them to control you.”— Susan Forward, Craig Buck, amazon.com
“He’s a close-minded intellectual bully. Only his ideas and opinions matter, and no one can change his opinions or open his mind to new ideas or points of view. He’s quick-tongued and seems to have an answer for everything if you try to change his mind. He usually gossips and criticizes others regula…”— Glass Lillian, amazon.com
“After they have made you insecure enough to cling to them and raise every single insecurity you have, they will comfort you and reassure you that they are with you. And thus your dependency is increased, along with the power they have over you.”— Pamela Kole, amazon.com
“But these people cross the line when they abuse their capacity for persuasion for their selfish benefit, especially when it's at the expense of the relationship.”— Devin Walters, amazon.com
“Not all toxic people are cruel and uncaring. Some of them love us dearly. Many of them have good intentions. Most are simply toxic to our being simply because their needs and way of existing force us to compromise ourselves and our happiness. They aren't inherently bad people, but they aren't the ri…”— Danielle Koepke, internal-acceptance-movement.tumblr.com
“You don't ever have to feel guilty about removing toxic people from your life...You don't have to make room for people who cause you pain or make you feel small.”— Danielle Koepke, internal-acceptance-movement.tumblr.com
“You don’t have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.”— Jane Green, amazon.com
“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”— Laurell K Hamilton, amazon.com
“Poisonous relationships can alter our perception. You can spend many years thinking you’re worthless. But you’re not worthless. You’re under-appreciated.”— Steve Maraboli, facebook.com
“Toxic relationships not only make us unhappy; they corrupt our attitudes and dispositions in ways that undermine healthier relationships and prevent us from realizing how much better things can be.”— Michael Josephson, whatwillmatter.com
“The cost is self-destruction in the process. The cost is you hurting me to get there. I can't sit here and wait for the respect I deserved this whole time. I can't sit here and wait to be loved, when I'm giving the best of myself. I can't sit here playing a game. It’s like a game of Jumanji. Either…”— Kirsten Corley, puckermob.com
“I’ve found the most tragic aspect of losing loved ones wasn’t the big boom of the fallout, but realizing later how much healthier I was without them.”— Maggie Young, amazon.com
“Toxic relationships are dangerous to your health; they will literally kill you.”— Bryant McGill, bryantmcgill.com