Healthy vs. Toxic

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    Healthy Love


    • Development of self first.

    • Room to grow, expand; desire for other to grow.

    • Separate interests; other friends; maintain other meaningful relationships.

    • Encouragement of each other's expanding; secure in own worth.

    • Appropriate Trust (i.e. trusting partner to behave according to fundamental nature.)

    • Compromise, negotiation or taking turns at leading. Problem solving together.

    • Embracing of each other's individuality.

    • Relationship deals with all aspects of reality.

    • Self-care by both partners; emotional state not dependent on other's mood.

    • Loving detachment (healthy concern about partner, while letting go.)

    • Sex is free choice growing out of caring & friendship.

    • Ability to enjoy being alone.

    • Cycle of comfort and contentment.



    Toxic Love

    • Obsession with relationship.

    • Security, comfort in sameness; intensity of need seen as proof of love (may really be fear, insecurity, loneliness)

    • Total involvement; limited social life; neglect old friends, interests.

    • Preoccupation with other's behavior; fear of other changing.

    • Jealousy; possessiveness; fear of competition; protects "supply."

    • Power plays for control; blaming; passive or aggressive manipulation.

    • Trying to change other to own image.

    • Relationship is based on delusion and avoidance of the unpleasant.

    • Expectation that one partner will fix and rescue the other.

    • Fusion (being obsessed with each other's problems and feelings.)

    • Pressure around sex due to insecurity, fear & need for immediate gratification.

    • Unable to endure separation; clinging.

    • Cycle of pain and despair.
    Source URL: https://milesaustin.blogspot.com/2008/03/healthy-vs-toxic.html
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