Healthy Boundaries: Supporting Loved Ones in Pain

“It doesn’t have to be this way!” I wanted to shout at her. Instead, I tried to keep my voice as still as possible for the rest of the conversation. I didn’t want her to pick up on the anxiety that I felt for her. You know, the kind of anxiety that you feel when you’re shouting at the woman on the TV who’s walking around her home with a knife in her hand, and you can clearly see the scary man in a mask behind her? Yeah, I wanted to shout at her just like that! “He is behind you! Run, girl, run!” But I know that it doesn’t work that way. Girls like us, the ones that love hard, need to realize unhealthy and toxic relationships for ourselves. So, in the meantime, I will sit with her in her pain and love her so much that she learns to love herself. 

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