# toughlove

please be patient with me, i am experiencing horrors unknown to you at all times.
—https://t.co/8aOAf797TA



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2022-08-24

Learning how to navigate healthy relationships when you experienced nothing but suffering is a learning curve. —



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2022-06-20

Being responsible for your healing doesn’t mean being at fault for your trauma.

It’s about taking ownership of yourself —your whole self— and reclaiming the power that was once taken from you.


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2021-07-19

I wish that I could leave myself alone. I wish that I could finally feel that I punished myself enough.
—Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist


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2021-05-07

I forgive myself for moving in any type of way that didn't reflect how deep I value myself. —

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2020-09-12

Getting your shit together requires a level of honesty you can’t even imagine. There’s nothing easy about realizing you’re the one that’s been holding you back this whole time. —Unknown

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2020-09-06

Life became a lot simpler when I decided to just let people misunderstand me. —

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2020-02-11

That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less. —Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

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2020-02-09

The most intimate thing we can do is to allow people we love most see us at our worst. At our lowest. At our weakest. True intimacy happens when nothing is perfect.
—, The Song of David


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2019-06-28

I am sick of haunting myself
from within like an old house.
—Erica Jong, from “Bitter Herb”


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2019-05-05

i was toxic to some & a blessing to others but i’m willing to admit i wasn’t always in the right. —

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2019-01-14

A lot of people who are good at forgiving others, don't seem to know how to forgive themselves... —

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2018-12-01

If you don’t heal from what hurt you, you’ll bleed on people who didn’t cut you. —Unknown

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2018-10-30

Understand that even an “understanding heart” grows tired of being understanding and never understood. —

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2018-09-27

And I’m over it,
I’m over it,
I promise I’m over it.
But it still hurts sometimes.
—Laura Elizabeth Ross


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2018-08-16

Honestly it hurts, but it doesn't destroy me like it used to. —Unknown

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2018-06-26

All this looking back is fucking with your neck. —

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2018-03-10

My heart hurts when I think of all the things I haven’t done. — Unknown

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2018-03-06

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand. —Sylvia Plath

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2018-02-10

I only write when I am falling in love, or falling apart. —

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2018-01-24