When someone says, “Oh! I am suffering so much in a toxic relationship and I am yet continuing to tolerate it,” then he is just stating only half the story, either ignorantly or deliberately. The fact is, if you are tolerating a toxic relationship, you are deriving some pleasure out of it. The ego cannot do anything without getting something from that thing.
So, if a lady comes to you and says, “I get beaten up and all the abusive things happen to me, and yet I choose to remain in the household,” then she is not telling you the full story. The full story is: she is still seeing some benefit in staying put. Otherwise, she would have just walked out long back. So, you must ask her, what is it that you are tolerating all such abuse for?
This article has been created by volunteers of the PrashantAdvait Foundation from transcriptions of sessions by Acharya Prashant
