Hot take: all relationships can survive mistakes, but they cannot survive patterns.
Repeated behavior is not a mistake, it is a decision, apologies lose meaning when the actions never change
Stop trying to save people addicted to drama and victimhood.
They don’t want healing... they want cycles. Your help becomes fuel for what they refuse to change.
And the longer you stay, the more you lose yourself in their pattern.
i think long-term stress changes people quietly. you become less expressive, less excited, more tired, more detached, until one day you barely recognize the version of yourself that existed before survival mode.