If you clicked on this article for yourself, then please take this as a sign that you are wanting to leave whatever relationship caused you to click the title. Nothing that I or anyone says can change the intuitive feeling that something is not right.

Yes it will suck. But it would suck more to wait another year just to make the same decision that you are contemplating making now. It will be a hard process as the closer you get to pulling the trigger and leaving, the more reasons you will have to stay.

That is fear talking. Fear of change and fear of regret. Trying something new is terrifying, it always feels safer to stay put in a comfortable rut. Please remember, you have made it this far in life, navigating all the hurdles, losses and change that has come your way. When we consider leaving a relationship, we are instantly reminded of all the good things that we will lose and we subsequently forget why we were considering leaving in the first place.

Typically, we don’t leave until it becomes so bad that the truth of the situation is truly undeniable. However, by then, we have been beaten down and are broken by the relationship’s turn for the worse. Our confidence levels are shattered and we may have the symptoms of a plethora of mental afflictions – we are anxious about the future and depressed about ourselves. Our self-worth drops so low that we feel like staying is the right option because ‘they are the best someone like me could get’ or ‘at least I am lucky enough to have someone’.