High Octane Women

lets not forget that some people stay in toxic relationships due to financial entanglements, children, and fear of the unknown.

Thank for you for the gender neutral writing in this post. It's very easy to write something on this topic and easily assume that it's the man who toxic. Not always true. I am a man, married many years, and only recently woke up to the toxicity of the marriage. It was only the threat of walking out the door (something I really did not want to do because of the children) that forced my wife into marriage counseling, which has slowly started the process of "de-toxifying" my wife's behavior. It's important to point out that many of the behaviors you describe, and the victim's responses, can easily apply to men or women.

Thanks for that good advices, Sherrie

Es importante vigilar con quién nos juntamos, y procurar relacionarnos con gente positiva que nos eleva y nos hace sentir bien.
Por otro lado, cuando tienes relaciones tóxicas, hay alguna razón dentro de ti que te impulsa hacia esa persona. Es una buena señal para nuestro autoconocimiento.

Thanks and hughes.

I agree with "anonymous" that woman can be just as toxic if not more than men. They can be far more clingy, judgmental, demanding and emotional. I've seen many a woman I know use such behaviors in order to gain control of a man and even to go so far as to use sex as a weapon against him if he doesn't do this or that for her.

you always have an option to get out of a toxic relationship. I got out with the clothes on my back. no amount of money was going to keep me there.

I went undiagnosed with R.A., Ankylosing Spondylitis and Stills disease for many years. I was told I was a hypochondriac by my family members and made to feel like I was crazy or a liar by friends and co workers. It hurt almost as much as my physical body did sometimes.
This past spring I was left out of my own daughters college graduation because I couldn't drive two hours, sit on bleachers for three and then drive myself back home again. My mother and father live fifteen min. from my house, my sister lives twenty five min away. I was never even asked if I was going while they all made plans together. Even worse, I was condemned for not making my own way there some how. Since I lost my husband a few years ago, I feel like I have no support left. I have had to stop speaking to my "family" for now. After the grad thing, I had to find out on FB that my daughter and her boyfriend got engaged. The stress has made me depressed and put me into a flare has now lasted since May.
I care about them, but they have no clue what my life has become. I want to fully participate, I just physically can't do it. And since they do not care to be compassionate or caring to me, I have to bow out as gracefully as I can. I can count on being told I am just being dramatic, or trying to get attention for my decision, but I have to save my self. I still have a fourteen year old son at home. He must be smarter than me, because he refuses to attend family functions any more. He has to watch me be so swollen and stiff that I can't get to the bathroom without help.It hurts him as much as it hurts me.
It took me years to finally value myself enough to make this break. It makes me sad beyond belief that I will probably not get to be there on my daughters happiest day. But I count too.

It's far better to get rid of a toxic relation than to be into it. I have seen many friends of mine who have been through this and how they have felt in such a relation. Anyways, i enjoyed reading your blog post too.
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