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An unhealthy or toxic relationship is one where you feel stuck in an unproductive, destructive, hostile or dependent pattern.  These patterns cause you to go back and forth between wanting to leave and deciding to stay. 

The critical question of toxic relationships is whether it’s time to leave. Here are 5 ways toxicity can crop up in relationships.  

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It has been a startling, alarming, distressing period of history since the Covid 19 pandemic swept the globe. Whatever your situation, your life has been dramatically affected. It has been shocking and frightening. Tragically, many died, many were gravely ill, and many were infected. 

The realization of what was happening came gradually to medical experts, to politicians, and to the citizens of all the world. It required us to adjust and then to re-adjust again and again, as new information was gathered. We began to accept the reality of the pandemic and our way of life changed.

Since the development and distribution of the vaccine, there has been enormous relief. There is hope for a way out. Yet as states and cities here move toward full re-opening, many of us now feel a surprising unrest about re-entry. Rather than an easy and carefree sense of returning to the old normal life, many realize this may not be so simple. After struggling to adjust to being adrift in a new shocking world, alone or with our small safe group of people, we now have before us the unchartered waters of navigating re-entry into co-existence.

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