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Best ways to get over a toxic relationship

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summerrain34 · 26/02/2020 19:22

Best ways to get over a toxic relationship and find peace within your self pregnant at the moment and really feeling down ... does it just get better with time

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lexiepuppy · 26/02/2020 19:30

Are you still with them?
If you aren't delete them out of your life, off of all SM and don't look at what they are upto!

Then concentrate on you and baby, you are both far more important, give yourself little treats to keep your spirits up.

Things will get easier.
Just research about red flags in relationships, boundaries and cluster b personality disorders. Narcissists/psychopaths/sociopaths/borderlines/histrionics.
Flowers

summerrain34 · 26/02/2020 19:44

No recently left but I just found it so hard to keep watching what their doing thinking about them with someone else I just spend a lot of time time thinking about him I don't want to it's obssssive and really affecting me I want to be happy withtout him but finding it really hard

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LemonTT · 26/02/2020 19:53

There are mindfulness techniques that work. But it takes time. One of the best is to reimagine yourself and your future. When intrusive thoughts of him and the past come to mind. Allow them to enter then consciously put them in a box marked the past.

Then think of the future with your child. Being a parent truly focused on him or her. Playing, hugging and growing together. Find that sense of peace and embrace it.

lexiepuppy · 26/02/2020 20:39

You are still trauma bonded to him.
So you have an addiction to him.

There is a video by Common Ego on YouTube about being trauma bonded to someone, sorry I’m rubbish at links!

Also check out these for relationship advice:
Susan Winter
Matthew Hussey
Derrick Jaxn
Alex Cormont

Write a list of all the crappy things he did to you, so that when you think he was Mr Wonderful it will remind you of his toxic behaviour.

Try and redirect your focus to you and your baby, he is irrelevant and you are top priority.
Be gentle and kind to yourself.

Love yourself more.Flowers

RedRed9 · 26/02/2020 22:58

Literally no contact. Block him on all social media and don’t go looking.

Focus on the right now and the next. Put one foot in front of the other and keep walking away from him.

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