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love, commitment and the care that we all yearn for deep down inside. To

love and to be loved wholeheartedly in return. Sadly, there are many out

there who have their hearts broken when they realize that not only is their

partner someone unreliable, but someone who has been controlling their

strings like a puppet all along.

We all have certain expectations and romanticized notions of what we think

love is, thanks to the way love has been portrayed in society through the

movies we watch, articles we read and social media posts were scrolling

through almost every day. When we see jealousy playing out on screen, we

believe it’s a sign of intense love because the two people in the movie are
afraid of losing their loved one to another. The popular Twilight movies and

literature leads us to believe that true love and relationships are about

obsession. That love is an all-consuming feeling. That when two people are

in love, nothing else matters and no boundaries exist. This romanticized

notion blinds to the fact that this is not what reality is at all, and that kind of
love only exists in movies and between the pages of books because they

make for a good storyline. In real life, that kind of behavior are indicators

of manipulation. Being controlling isn’t about love, it is manipulation.

Being obsessed isn’t being passionate, it’s manipulative.

On some level, we know we should be able to recognize the signs of an

abusive partner in a relationship. We know that we should, but it’s easier

said than done. When we love, we tend to blind ourselves to our partner’s

fault. We make excuses for the behavior that should be setting off alarm

bells in our head because we’re trying to avoid facing the truth. We don’t
want to have our hearts broken that way and we try to convince ourselves

that they’re not really like that at all. When a relationship escalates from