Why Good Girls Stay In Bad Relationships

Photograph by Steve Snider

A young woman finds the strength and courage to end an emotionally abusive relationship and begins her search for self-love

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I wrote this article 4 or 5 times but left them unfinished in my draft emails because I didn’t have the heart to tell the truth. I was scared about how people would interpret me — especially since I had put myself back into this situation not once, but three times.

Smart girls get themselves in terrible situations not because we are stupid, but because we think we can fix anything, including people.

For me, this meant subjecting myself to an emotionally abusive relationship. I stuck around because I thought that if I loved the person enough, they would finally love me how I loved them: unconditionally.

There were some good moments. However, and it sounds cliché, just as fast as he could make me the happiest girl in