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The hope that someone will change can (sometimes) be a trauma response. ➡️ When we become attached to who someone could be rather than accepting who they are right now, we can find ourselves stuck in unhealthy relational patterns. ➡️ Some common ways this shows up: 📌 Tolerating harmful behavior because we believe that if we're patient enough, loving enough, or understanding enough, they'll eventually get their 💩 together and treat us differently. 📌 Waiting for someone to become the partner, friend, or family member we need them to be while silently wondering why they aren't meeting us where we are. ➡️ Over time, this can create a painful cycle of hope, disappointment, and emotional exhaustion. ➡️ It may also activate old wounds connected to being overlooked, devalued, neglected, or harmed. ➡️ We can become trapped in an endless loop of triggers, unmet expectations, and longing for a version of someone that doesn't currently exist. 🌱 Healing invites us to meet people where they are. 🌿 To see them clearly, rather than through the lens of potential. 🪴 To build relationships based on who people consistently show themselves to be, not who we hope they'll become. 🌳 There's freedom in that honesty. And an opportunity to relate with greater integrity, clarity, and self-respect. ❓ Have you ever found yourself holding onto someone's potential instead of accepting who they were showing you they were? #relationaltrauma #trauma #healing #relationships #values 🪄✨️ Subscribe to Elegantly Healing for more. Link in bio.

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