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If you feel damaged by a toxic relationship, as though you no longer know yourself, or even have a self…
If your last breakup left you feeling hopeless about your future…
If you feel like you haven’t fully recovered, even if your relationship ended many years ago…
Then you may have been harmed by a partner who has some of the pathological traits of narcissism, borderline or antisocial personality disorder or other damaging psychopathology.
SurviveTransformSoar.com takes a positive, proactive approach to helping you regain your self and your sense of possibility. We can:
- Support you through the pain of the early withdrawal symptoms
- Show you how to care for yourself in a healing chrysalis (cocoon)
- Guide you to flourish in a new life that is even better than you had before (BTB4™)
My name is Dawn Aegle and I am glad you have found your way to SurviveTransformSoar.com. Our inbox magazine experts and I look forward to being part of your support team as you heal and grow from the trauma of a toxic relationship.
Because survival is not enough…
Stages of Recovery
After a Toxic Relationship
There are three primary stages of recovery from a toxic relationship, which is usually a long-term relationship with a partner who has a Cluster B personality disorder, including narcissism, antisocial and borderline personality disorders, or other forms of psychopathology.
Stage 1 – Survival
It is not easy to leave a toxic relationship. Most partners return several times based on the manipulations of the toxic partner and their own hopes that if they change just one more thing about themselves, life will get better and the relationship will be happy and loving again.
When someone does leave a relationship with a toxic partner where they have experienced verbal, emotional or other types of abuse, they expect to feel relieved. The excruciating pain commonly known as ‘the aftermath’ comes as a surprise and is usually overwhelming. It is not an understatement to say that survival is not assured.
There are four primary situations in which the partner does not survive:
- They are killed by their former partner.
- They kill themselves to escape the pain of the aftermath, having given up hope for a future they care to live.
- They return to the abusive relationship to ease the emotional pain.
- They are diagnosed with a life-threatening illness or disease, usually resulting from the long-term stress of the relationship and its aftermath.
So I do not use the term survival lightly. Once you are out of the relationship, your first essential task is to …