How to Take Breaks & End Toxic Friendships & Relationships

Not all relationships last forever. Some for a season, fewer for a lifetime.
Sometimes you have to take a break to come back stronger or just end it for your better health.

Show Notes:
 I didn’t really understand until I was a young adult in college that relationships, platonic or romantic, didn’t have to last forever. Even family ones.

Honestly, this was really good for me to discover because while I was in college, I needed to put some space between my father & me.  There are times in our lives when we can just become overwhelmed with the differences of opinions, hurt feelings, miscommunications, all the things. And rather than continue to verbally abuse each other or sometimes physically (hopefully not), taking a break can be a better option.

However, I do want to mention that there might be times when you have already tried to take breaks from one another, maybe several times, but nothing changes. This might mean that you need to end the relationship.  Sometimes you're no longer willing to pay the cost to be in that relationship. 

Many relationships have an expiration date. Some are only meant to last for a season & others can last a lifetime. Relationships take work from both sides. There will not be perfect balance all the time or even often, but it needs to go back & forth between both people.  When that doesn’t happen, it can become too much and you have to make the choice to endure or move forward.

Here are some red flags for when it might be better for you to end a relationship:

• They betray your trust
• They are more often negative & have a victim mentality
• There seems to be drama with & around them too often
• They don’t seem to listen to you or care when you need support
• They don’t respect your boundaries

Sometimes trauma or abuse that happens in a relationship causes you to instill a break or an ending. These will be moments where you need to decide what is best for you & what needs to happen for you to endure as little pain as possible & no abuse. My suggestion to you is that if you are being abused, that should be an immediate end of the relationship. Trauma is tougher because being around those that were present during your trauma experience can be triggering for you. Which could lead to you taking a break from those relationships or even having to end those if it’s just too much hurt.

Today I want to share with you some tips on How to Take a Break or End Friendships & Relationships:

1. Really Think Through the Reasons Why You Want to Take a Break or End the Relationship. 
2. Don’t Ghost Them, Have the Conversation Out of Respect.
3. Don’t Come to Someone in Anger or Reflect Their Anger in the Moment.
4. Don’t Play the Blame Game & Only Speak How YOU Feel. 
5. Share Your Boundaries With Them to Know for the Future. 
6. Make Plans to See Each Other in the Future. 
7. Forgive Them.

Thank you again for listening & I hope this episode was helpful.

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