They Might Be Toxic
By MARIA COLOMY
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A quick easy guide to help you identify unhealthy patterns in your relationships by looking at:
- Similar relationship patterns at work, home, and in the family.
- How much freedom and autonomy you have within the context of a relationship.
- How you are spoken to.
- The
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They Might Be Toxic - MARIA COLOMY
They Might Be Toxic
A Little Book About Toxic Relationships
Maria Colomy
Copyright © 2022 Maria Colomy All rights reserved
The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher.
Cover design by: Maria Colomy
This book is dedicated to all the women and men who made it out, and to all the women and men who will.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
To my friend Pilar, who reached out one day for a discussion, and ended up lighting a fire.
To all the abusive, demeaning, unhealed souls who helped me write this book. Without you, I would never know my own tenacity, my own strength, or my own will.
And of course, I’d like to thank me, for my own hard work, for loving myself enough to get out, and stay out.
May the bridges we burn light our way.
Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Closing thoughts
Introduction
Toxic – the blanket label that has become ever-so-popular for any and all things that we find unpleasant. Right?
Well not here. Beyond the sarcasm and hyperbole, in this text I’ll be addressing one very specific thing, truly toxic, harmful behavior that you may be pacifying because you THINK you’re being polite, keeping the peace, or whatever other co-dependent excuse you’ve chosen.
This is not a how-to manual. I am not a therapist. This is a guide for those who can’t