Save Your Sanity: Help For Toxic Relationships

Who wants to live in a pressure cooker? No one goes out and says, "I want to live with anxiety, hyper-vigilance, stress, and uncertainty. Give me that relationship!" Well, no one who cares about themselves does, right? Today, I'm using the contrasts between a slow cooker and a pressure cooker to highlight just what I mean. Most of us have one or the other--maybe, both--in our kitchens. We know what they do.Have you ever thought about slow cookers and pressure cookers in terms of how relationships start, grow, cook, or burn? It makes it quite clear!Healthy relationships grow. They're gently creating depth of flavor, slowly.#Hijackal relationships degrade and love to reduce even the strongest fiber to nothing.Which relationship sounds better to you? Less heat over more time to savor the flavor? Or, greater heat over less time to break things down?Are you genuinely captivated by your partner, or feeling controlled and a captive? Big difference!Think deeply about these points today, even though you may think they