When you meet a lot of people and you date somebody, or you're just in a relationship with friends, lovers, business, or whatever it may be, there are people that are just toxic to you, and you don't even know it yourself.
Israel's behavior when it comes to Egypt is that of a battered wife. Nothing but apologies.
Need is never a good basis for any relationship.
Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.
My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.
I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would be a good deal more hair-raising than any storybook made it sound, though she was determined to try. "It should be hair-raising," added Howl. "And you'll exploit me," Sophie said. "And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me.
People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.
You can have a good moment with a parent you are estranged from, and you have a great moment, and then the next time you see them, everything's back to the way it was before and you guys are throwing knives at each other.
Negative relationships are unpleasant but predictable.
I cannot, will never, understand these couples who hate each other, who conduct open warfare in front of their children - the kind of people who have to drop the kids off at the end of the driveway in case they lay eyes on one another. At the very least, civility must reign.
If you are in a toxic relationship, that poisons you everywhere else in your life.
We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.
I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
Tell me what you want, and then I'll put in what I want... after I'm done with my codependent providing for you, I'll get a little for me too.
I think most people know when they're in a toxic relationship - it requires an enormous amount of effort to keep it going, and you don't get what you want from it.
Women give us solace, but if it were not for women we should never need solace.
The worst thing you can do in a relationship, and what's really unattractive about it, is that people begin to limit each other.
A brother who is unhappy is a dangerous relative to have.
Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. This is one of the main problems in dysfunctional relationships. The more mature and rational you are the more you are victimized because, they are aware that you're not going to be as aggressive, destructive, or possibly as abusive and so you are the one who has to bend. You're the one who has to change and this constant rapping of rational people's souls around the prickly irrationalities of other people are what appeasers are constantly doing.
In reality, I know I'm not hurt directly by sexism; however, my life is made less because of it, so I started thinking about the fallout from relationships in which people feed off each other.
Something that's unsustainable, like a dysfunctional relationship, can go on longer than you expect, and then end faster and messier than you think.
If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This phase can develop into an unhealthy, codependent relationship.
For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.
The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.
When people bully us, we are complicit in it in some way. We do allow it to happen to some extent.
