Toxic Relationships Research Paper

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Toxic relationships are unfortunately a common occurrence. Hoping to attain a mutually fulfilling, loving union, sometimes people find themselves in situations where one or both partners' personal issues and destructive behavior do damage to the relationship and to the self esteem of the victimized party. Whether it is as a result of emotional or physical abuse, addiction, or infidelity, the result is often that the injured partner feels unimportant, inferior, incapable, or even crazy. If you've left a toxic relationship, that takes a lot of courage and you can give yourself credit for that - however, leaving doesn't immediately heal the damage. Here are 3 steps to recovering your self esteem after a toxic relationship:

1. Take care of your

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