If You Are Not Being Treated Right, Leave

I had the mentality that as long as I put forth a good effort in love and did all of the right things that I would be appreciated and treated well. I thought that the perfect love would naturally come, but I had not recognized red flags in others that would tell me to stay away from them. I had not realized that in certain ways in my relationships that I was being taken advantage of.

I desired to have a long term relationship, but did not have the proper foundation for any kind of relationship with how men were treating me in the dating world. I was confused and more lost than ever at the ends of the short relationships that I had with men. I usually didn’t know where to start to build myself back up again.

I struggled with hoping for the best outcomes and seeing no change or very little change within the relationships that I had. The relationships would diminish in quality or just end abruptly. The intensity of the feelings that I would experience would not be enough to keep the relationship going. It was all short lived and then it would be over. I did not have high hopes for other relationships after these did not go so well.

If I took an assessment of the behavior of the men that I had chosen to pursue, I would characterize them as unstable, flighty and distrustful. They wanted things easy. They wanted what they…