Love is truly the best emotions that a human being can experience. Most of the people die to fall in love and to be loved back. Although some of us experience heart breaks due to a failed relationship or unreciprocated love, love is not gloomy for many. There are a lot of people who are lucky enough to be loved back by the person that they love, leading a blissful and mushy relationship.

We all have heard incidents of physical abuse which a partner, majorly women suffer from in a romantic relationship. However, there is another kind of abuse which is as rampant as the physical abuse, yet not many people speak about it or seem to be aware of it. Known as emotional abuse, it leaves no mark on one’s body as a scar to remember the trauma rather causes immeasurable harm to one’s mental health.

Signs of emotional abuse can be many, ranging from your partner isolating you from the gender that you are interested in, to owning all your passwords, accessing and checking your social media accounts and conversations with friends and family quite frequently. What is toxic about such relationships is that the partner who indulges in causing the emotional trauma does not give the other person their own privacy or their own space. Such an abuse is often justified on the pretext of trust. Thus, the other person willingly finds it’s natural to give all their passwords and access to their privacy without once questioning the logic behind it.

Your partner might indulge in unnecessary fights and quarrels, often over small, petty issues which could have been avoided otherwise. Your partner might stop appreciating you, leading you to believe that there is nothing right which you can do or always criticizing even when you do some good.

Emotional abuse might not lead to any physical fights but arguments on a frequent basis which can spoil both your relationship with the person and your mental peace of mind. You might love the person unconditionally, yet it is always rational and practical to understand the implications of living in a toxic relationship. A toxic relationship will teach you to love the other person more at the stake of your privacy, happiness and self-dignity. It will ask you submit yourself to the whims and fancies of the other person and not doing things or living your life the way you wish to.

You need to understand the difference between loving selflessly and loving out of fear. If you do or are made to do certain things not because you feel comfortable but because your partner has made you believe so that it is your duty, then it’s time that you reconsider being in such a relationship. It will be undoubtedly painful since you love the person nonetheless, but after a while, when you look back at your decision, you will respect your decision of releasing yourself from all the misery, pain and torture of being in a toxic relationship.