#toxic situations

[help-my-relationship]

I, 28F and my boyfriend/father of my children, 27M are on the verge of splitting up after 10 years and 2 kids together

I feel like this is a typical break up post. My boyfriend continues to put me down. Tell me I’m not the one for him. He doesn’t feel it for me. I’m so tired of pouring my heart out to try to get him to understand my feelings. Some people want gifts or fancy dates, but all I’ve ever wanted was to feel enough. I just want to feel appreciated for what I contribute to our household. Why can’t he just be someone who listens to my concerns or hears me out when I just want to vent?.. it’s like I’m always talking to myself. I don’t want to have to change everything about me for him to feel this way but I don’t want to find anyone else in order to get what I’m asking for.. just someone to hear me. We argued in the car today and I may of taken it a little too far by calling him names because he has a way of just making my blood boil when I just want him to hear my words. My daughter, 7F, cried when we were arguing and I felt really bad. But I also don’t want her to be subject to meeting someone to puts her down like he does me, ever. Can we come back from this?… I don’t know how to fix it. I wish he had any sort of emotional capabilities to help fix it but he doesn’t want to. He wants to leave. I don’t want to break up our family. I do everything I can to hold us together, to hold myself together. But he is so impossible to be happy with. I don’t want to move on. 😭 Anyways.. writing this because I really have no friends to talk to about my situation. Just looking for some uplifting words of encouragement or advice.

What you have now is a broken home. Your home would be happier and healthier if you could accept he doesn't want to be with you and let him go. This is miserable. Your child is suffering. You are all suffering. The way out is through acceptance. No, you cannot bully someone into staying with you and have that turn healthy. I'm sorry, but it's been over for a long, long time. He has heard what you have to say. He doesn't want to be with you. Listening to you doesn't mean agreeing with you. Let him go.

[alunah-lalunah]

Why are you stuck in a toxic situation and what can you do to get out of it?

It is often true that if a person remains in a destructive situation, some part of the organism is preserving something through that staying. That “something” may be attachment, familiarity, fear reduction, economic survival, identity continuity, hope, guilt avoidance, social belonging, protection from loneliness, or simply the avoidance of even worse perceived outcomes. In that sense, behavior usually has a logic, even when the person consciously hates the situation. Organisms do not persist randomly for years. Some regulating function is being served.

However calling that “worth it” can become misleading because it may imply conscious endorsement or balanced exchange. Often the person is not calculating “this suffering is beneficial.” Rather, the nervous system may experience alternatives as even more threatening. For example, a child conditioned to equate abandonment with catastrophe may later remain in humiliating relationships because separation activates overwhelming survival fear. The staying still serves a function, but not in the same way that enjoying a benefit does. This distinction matters because otherwise one risks interpreting all suffering through hidden desire alone. Reality is more constrained than that. Human beings are shaped by developmental conditioning, dependency, economics, biology, trauma, fear, learned helplessness, attachment systems, and limited imagination about alternatives.

Still, the core intuition points toward something many people resist acknowledging. Staying is never psychologically empty. Even paralysis has structure. Even endurance is organized around competing fears and rewards. The Underground Man is powerful partly because he reveals this uncomfortable mixture. He suffers, but he also invests in the suffering. The misery gives him identity, moral distinction, and resistance against absorption into a world he despises. If the suffering vanished, part of his self-definition would vanish too.

And this happens far beyond literature.

Some people unconsciously preserve grievances because grievance organizes their identity. Some preserve helplessness because helplessness protects them from risk. Some preserve overwork because productivity legitimizes existence. Some preserve toxic relationships because conflict still feels closer to love than emptiness does.

This does not mean people “want” pain in the ordinary sense. It means organisms often become attached to structures that simultaneously wound and stabilize them. In simple words, you are in a toxic situation because it is well known. The harsh part is that liberation from a toxic structure usually requires tolerating a period of disorientation. The old suffering at least provided familiarity. Outside it, one may initially encounter uncertainty, loneliness, guilt, emptiness, or loss of identity. This is the most important and inevitable part. You must face the necessity of something new and often terrifying.

That is why people often remain longer than outsiders think rational. Not because humans are secretly evil or masochistic by essence, but because organisms adapt even to harmful situattion and begin defending them against the unknown.

For most people surviving in something old is more important than having the courage to dare to try something new.

[unwelcome-ozian]

[heulwenflower]

I Rember my fur coat

As time went on it started to rot

Smell

And attract flies

There were maggots crawling in the fur

Infinite eggs waiting to hatch

I couldn't let go of its warmth

I saw no other way

Then the parasites pushed me out

I don't need it anymore

I'm in a warmer climate

My skin is enough

[sharkspez]

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I found the ⚠️ toxicity of the environment ⚠️ seeping into my flesh, it was turning me into a different person! Short fused 💣, extremely tearful, beyond exhausted 💤, unsafe exhausted!!

[williambelfarmd]

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[resourcefulsatan]

If you put on a glove and touch shit, the glove only gets shittier. The shit never gets glovier.

[strangesigils]

Hi! I hope all is well! Umm...I constantly feel obligated to stay in shitty situations like in an abusive job (because I need money) or with mean family (because they need me), so I end up feeling so trapped that I can't leave. Could you make a sigil that's along the lines of "I don't feel trapped"/"I am not trapped"? Unless there is already something similar floating around. I would really appreciate it.

I’ve been there homie. It took a long time for me to build the self confidence and resources to learn how to leave these situations, there’s still some that I have a hard time finding it in me to leave behind. Here ya go I hope these sigils help.

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