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Why Are People Afraid to leave a Relationship that doesn't Satisfy Them or make Them Happy?
They may be going through this situation. Have they ever experienced it in their lives, or do they know one person or several people who are like that?
Here comes the classic: “Break up Already,” “Why don’t you leave it?” “You’ve put up a lot!” “what are you waiting for to just leave?” and so, we can go with a long list of expressions that, surely they once told us, or we have told someone else. Why is it difficult for us, or are there people who find it difficult to end a relationship that they know is doing them much harm? Here are the answers:
CHILDHOOD INJURIES. The vast majority of people have various childhood wounds that can cause us various problems in our adult lives when they have not been healed. Likewise, these wounds create many affective deficiencies and a great need for someone else’s love.
LACK OF SELF-LOVE AND POOR SELF-ESTEEM. It has been proven that the vast majority of people who decide to stay in a relationship that does “a lot of harm” are because they have very poor self-esteem and no self-love. A person with good self-esteem and self-love will leave a relationship that is doing him much harm, even if it hurts him, but he will prefer to continue being treated badly. People with low self-esteem and who do not have…