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I have been told all my life I am too sensitive.

So far, I have not.

What distinguishes a toxic relationship is both the severity of these behaviors and how frequently they occur.

Not an easy task, but by taking control — for example by limiting phone calls, or by you choosing when you do or do not see them, etc.

5 years and he cheated 4.

These relationships are not necessarily hopeless, but they require substantial and difficult work if they are to be changed into something healthy.

Regressing instead of progressing — on a personal and spiritual level, you move backward instead of forwards and your self-growth stagnates around your partner• The work is never really done! Justifying bad behavior — you always find yourself trying to excuse or justify the selfish, immature or nasty behavior displayed by your partner• Similarly, when attempts are made from outside the relationship to divide and conquer, the couple is divided and conquered as easily as if they were never together in the first place.

Recently discovered my dad is a narcissist.

A lot of help can be found online or simply through chatting to someone on a mental health hotline.