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seeker1950 said:
Could someone be addicted to painful, dysfunctional relationships?

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That is a good question seeker...and you've received some equally good responses..

In my limited experience I have come to terms with a reality that some folks simply love their misery..no matter how it comes to them.

Whether it has to do with being familiar,,some form of pennance for real or imagined sins, or that pain is a many splendered thing...I don't know,,but misery seems to be the blanket of choice.

But these folks always return to the well,,no matter what relief is offered through Grace, hard work or both.

It is one of the most uncomfortable realites I have witnessed in dealing with folks who suffer profoundly and consistently.

And being "addicted" to relationships that only offer pain is one spoke upon their wheel..

IMHO.

Lenny