Link: How we get stuck in Sick Systems
If you have ever been in an unhealthy, abusive, and/or codependent relationship with a partner, friend, organization, or place of employment, this journal entry by Issendai will probably sound very familiar.
If you are currently someplace stuck, stressed out, unable to find your way out of your hole, and simultaneously feeling obliged to stay because others depend on you, and feeling badly mistreated by the very people who depend on you, read this. And read the comments to, or at least skim them - a lot of folks have added useful input and examples to further elaborate.
The thing is, I think almost everyone I know has been through some variation on this - it doesn't take malice, it just takes bad habits, desperation, or sloppy thinking.
--Ember--
If you are currently someplace stuck, stressed out, unable to find your way out of your hole, and simultaneously feeling obliged to stay because others depend on you, and feeling badly mistreated by the very people who depend on you, read this. And read the comments to, or at least skim them - a lot of folks have added useful input and examples to further elaborate.
The thing is, I think almost everyone I know has been through some variation on this - it doesn't take malice, it just takes bad habits, desperation, or sloppy thinking.
--Ember--