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Chapter Seven
Bad, Mad, Sad and Fad Love
This is the chapter/section that I knew I would have to write and also knew I would hate writing.
Love relationships aren’t always sustainable. Sometimes it is hurtful and unhealthy to stay in relationships you believe are loving but are really limiting, put your mental and physical health in danger, or are abusive.
This chapter is about “letting go” of relationships that are antagonistic, violent, degrading, dehumanizing or otherwise emotionally unhealthy. I have separated out four types of relationships that do the opposite of what I have been trying to promote throughout this book/program. Here they are:
Bad Love - Love which exploits a partner’s devotion and dedication, or seeks to control and manipulate a partner to be subservient and dehumanized.
Mad (as in crazy) Love - Love which has an element of emotional dependence, mistrust, jealousy and fear of abandonment. There is often a combination of “bad love” and “mad love” in unhealthy relationships.
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