Unhealthy Relationships

More than fifty percent of marriages end in divorce. Unhealthy relationships are much more common than healthy ones. In my memoir, Following the Whispers unhealthy relationships are the major theme.

My parents fought constantly and our home was filled with coldness and anger, rather than warmth and love. All I ever wanted growing up was to be happily married and to be a better parent than my parents were to me and avoid unhealthy relationships. Instead, unhealthy relationships became my lot in life. From my first marriage at 19, to unhealthy relationships with two other men, I craved the love and attention I’d never received.

Unhealthy relationships even permeated my connection with my son. After my divorce from his father, my son absorbed his dad’s negative feelings towards me and for years, we were unable to relate in normal, healthy ways.

Friendships, too, were unhealthy relationships characterized by my people-pleasing behavior. I believed that if I thought and did and said what I thought others wanted to hear and see, then they would love me. That kind of behavior only fosters unhealthy relationships—it does not create loving ones.

Following the Whispers outlines the theme of unhealthy relationships, beginning with my childhood and the unhealthy relationships formed there. Adolescence was filled with characters that can’t even be called unhealthy relationships because they weren’t relationships—they were sexual encounters. Only now have I left the theme of unhealthy relationships behind. In Following the Whispers you will see how I finally found lasting love and ended unhealthy relationships.

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