If you downloaded this workbook, it is no doubt that you have suffered a great deal within a relationship that was toxic and unhealthy. It is quite easy to choose the wrong person to be with. Many people mask who they truly are until they are far into a relationship, living with or married to another person. They want to be successful in a relationship for whatever reason, but they have never learned how to be a healthy partner for another person. Many times, they often haven't learned the appropriate life skills from early on in childhood.
It is easy to start to doubt and blame ourselves when we are in the midst of this toxic relationship. We become someone other than who we truly are. We lose sight of ourselves and our goals. We start to become jumpy and hypervigilant because of the way that our partner is treating us. We isolate ourselves, because we run out of the energy that it takes to
put on a happy face for others.
Many people suffer the symptoms of Complex PTSD from being in a relationship with another person. They begin to feel as though their life isn't what they wanted it to be. They feel like their ideal life was robbed from them. Everyone wants to be happy and feel secure in their relationships with others. Everyone has basic human needs that must be met in a relationship. Abusive partners often rob us from realizing both of these.
Abusive partners don't always realize that they are being bad partners. They are often mimicking bad behavior that was taught to them by others. Many of them even lack the empathy that is required in relationships with others. If your partner had an 'extreme male brain' wiring, head injury, or a more primitive emotional system, he or she was incapable of loving you in the way that you needed.
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