Pain
People pleasers aren’t any less controlling or manipulative than those who ‘take advantage’ of them.
Both are positioning themselves, and using others, to get their artificial needs met.
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Avoiding ‘toxic’ people isn’t the solution.
(or even possible)
Becoming clean yourself is.
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Why are you mad at them for your choice to betray yourself?
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When you take away the artificial buffer(s), there's a high chance that someone's gonna split.
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Why would you need to forgive?
What happened wasn’t wrong (it just was).
Nor was it about you.
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One must abandon themselves in the attempt to ‘fill’ through external means what can only be satisfied internally through learning how to not self-abandon in the first place.
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Whatever the addiction / compulsion is makes no difference.
It’s only ever about one’s relationship to their own power.
Which is perfectly demonstrated / out-pictured through one’s relationship to,
and experience of,
said substance / behaviour / person.
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The world doesn’t need saving.
Nor do you or anyone else.
#sorrynotsorryjesus
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If someone is stuck on their bullshit, I swerve.
I want nothing to do with it.
They can figure that out on their own time.
Not mine.
You couldn’t pay me enough to deal with someone who is not ready to let go of their shit.
Because there’s nothing there for me.
And I could care less if they’re ever ready.
I am absolutely not invested in someone else’s freedom.
At all.
They have to want that for themselves enough to do what needs to be done.
Which means letting go of their crutches and excuses and actually standing on their own.
At that point, we play.
Until then, I’m gone.
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your past
your thoughts
your trauma
your pain
your parents
your partner
your kids
your ex
your current circumstances
and your mental health issues
are not why you’re not free
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I don’t care about bridging our divide.
I care about bridging my own.
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I’m not going down there to get you.
You have to find your own way up.
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You weren’t deceived.
You knew.
And chose to believe something else.
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You only point at others when you’ve turned against yourself.
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There are times when silence is the absolute truth, and times when it’s used to avoid it.
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