Toxic people aren't always obviously toxic. They can be exactly what you need in the moment, they can make you smile, laugh, fall in love. They can make you feel overjoyed as you're carried away in the whirlwind, and it's only when you've landed a long way from shore that you realise how toxic it has been.
A toxic person is never outwardly toxic or nobody would ever fall under their spell. It's manipulation and mind games and misplaced guilt. It's you blaming yourself for not being good enough when actually you're perfectly imperfect and they just don't appreciate you. And you're not going to be appreciated, no matter how hard you try, because they don't really want to. You're the mouse the cat intensely plays with until it gets bored of the game and swallows you up.
It's fun, it's exhausting, it's passion and burning desire; but it's also reckless, and dangerous, and involves you being badly singed by the flames.
If it feels too good to be true, it almost always is. Stop drowning for people who wouldn't even get in the water for you.
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