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50 Powerful Quotes That Will Give You The Strength To Leave Your Toxic Relationship

Love isn’t manipulation. Love isn’t control. 
Holly Riordan
April 18, 2017
“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, Your Toxic Relationship Will Ruin Your Life If You Let It
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Alone, Ignore
“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, Your Toxic Relationship Will Ruin Your Life If You Let It
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, unhealthy, Love
“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, Your Toxic Relationship Will Ruin Your Life If You Let It
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Love, alive
“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, Toxic Relationships: When He’s The Only Thing You Want But The Last Thing You Need
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Confused, Disappointed
“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, Toxic Relationships: When He’s The Only Thing You Want But The Last Thing You Need
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Destruction, Draining
“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, Toxic Relationships: When He’s The Only Thing You Want But The Last Thing You Need
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Confusion, Fighting, Control
“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 struggling with self-love? Is this person using you for their own validation without considering how you really feel?”
— Rania Naim, Those Who Doubt You Will Never Love You
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Doubt, Self-Love
“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, Just Because They’re Damaged Doesn’t Mean You Need To Fix Them
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Apologies, Fighting
“If that asshole is treating you like a piece of shit, leave.”
— Jillian Bacarisas, Be A Woman Who Knows When To Leave
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Leave, Assholes
“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, Be A Woman Who Knows When To Leave
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Pain, Breakups
“Be a woman who knows when to leave houses, marriages, and relationships, because it doesn’t feels like home anymore.”
— Jillian Bacarisas, Be A Woman Who Knows When To Leave
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Divorce, Breakups, Home
“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, If He Doesn’t Give You The Love That You Deserve, Leave
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Appreciation, Hope
“Lose him when he treats you like his girlfriend behind close doors and sees right past you in public.”
— Liane White, Lose The Boy Who’s Not Afraid To Lose You
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, public, private
“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, Lose The Boy Who’s Not Afraid To Lose You
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Self-Love, Confidence
“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, Lose The Boy Who’s Not Afraid To Lose You
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Worth, Self-Love
“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, Please Be Strong Enough To Leave
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Abuse, Respect
“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, Please Be Strong Enough To Leave
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Worth, Value
“Know that you did all you could to save the relationship. And now it’s time to save yourself.”
— Marisa Donnelly, Please Be Strong Enough To Leave
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Breakups, Leaving
“If you leave him, you will feel proud of yourself. It’s what you know you should have done all along. He wasn’t right for you and you weren’t right for him.”
— Heidi Priebe, Here Is What Will Happen If You Leave Him
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, proud, Breakups
“If you leave him, you will thrive. You will remember all the ways in which he once held you back and you’ll reject them. You will learn from them. You will follow the dreams you once wanted, move toward the future you’d forgotten.”
— Heidi Priebe, Here Is What Will Happen If You Leave Him
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Future, Dreams
“If you leave him you will learn to be yourself again: You’ll pick up the hobbies you dropped off, re-connect with old friends and move cautiously back into yourself. You’ll go to work and feel productive. You’ll go out dancing and feel sexy. You’ll remember that you had a life before him and you can have another life after him, too. A different life. A better life, even.”
— Heidi Priebe, Here Is What Will Happen If You Leave Him
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Hobbies, Dancing
“Since when did it become okay for you to be silenced at the expense of another person’s happiness? Since when did you become fine with accepting bullshit? What made you to believe that you aren’t worth better?”
— Sara Di Tullio, You Don’t Need Him Anymore, It’s Time To Cut The Cord
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Bullshit, Worth
“Believe it or not, but you actually had a life before him. You lived for yourself. You were the cause of your own happiness. You put a smile on your own damn face.”
— Sara Di Tullio, You Don’t Need Him Anymore, It’s Time To Cut The Cord
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Happiness, Smiles
“You want to believe that you can save him. You want to be the hero. His hero. But the only person you have the power to save is yourself. And you still can.”
— Sara Di Tullio, You Don’t Need Him Anymore, It’s Time To Cut The Cord
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Hero, saving
“Loving someone won’t suddenly make them healthy. Or good for you.”
— Kris Miller, No, He Isn’t Misunderstood, He’s Toxic
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Toxic, unhealthy
“He isn’t going to change. It’s an uncomfortable pill to swallow, knowing your kindness and huge heart are wasted on him. But he’s zapping your energy. He’s sucking you dry.”
— Kris Miller, No, He Isn’t Misunderstood, He’s Toxic
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Changes, kindness
“Know what is best for you and walk away before it’s too late because chasing a false dream will only lead to heartbreak.”
— Shrina Dutta, The Ugly Truth About Bad Boys And Why You Need To Let Them Go
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Breakups, Heartbreak
“I think that’s the most important lesson you learn when you fall for the wrong person, that you could be everything you want to yourself if you really had to and that sometimes you’re the only person you can really count on.”
— Rania Naim, I’ll Be, For Myself, Everything You Couldn’t Be
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Lessons, Breakups
“You don’t have to settle for a love that consists of high highs and low lows. Or a love that’s mediocre all the way through. You can have the good without the bad. The beauty without the beast.”
— Holly Riordan, You Were Toxic, But You Made Me Feel Alive
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Settling, Love
“Toxic boys might make you feel alive for a minute. But the right boy will make you feel alive for a lifetime.”
— Holly Riordan, You Were Toxic, But You Made Me Feel Alive
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, alive, Toxic