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I'm like, oh, my God.
Like, please help.
Like, I wonder if anybody else is going through this.
Like, am I wrong for feeling this?
Like, I literally.
I mean, honestly, this person, the way they were communicating with me had me feeling that I was crazy.
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Hi, I'm Carvel Wallace.
So I will not be the first person, nor will I be the last to make the observation that intimate relationships can be, let's say, messy.
I mean, sometimes the messiest ones are those that span years or even decades.
They might be on again or off again, or they have hurt and then forgiveness and then more hurt.
And if you throw in addiction and abuse and maybe other toxic elements into the mix, what we thought was a loving relationship might turn out to be something else entirely.
It's hard, or at least it can be hard, to get out of a relationship like that.