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

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">My therapist told me that sometimes people who are used to that sort of relationship, perhaps due to childhood experiences, unconsciously seek out similar destructive relationships throughout their lives, in an effort to surmount them, to finally "do right" what they were powerless to do in their childhood. I am in the process of ending a very painful and dysfunctional marriage. I am finally saying "no" to this sort of relationship. It feels great, and echoes way back to when I was a little girl. Very powerful. Hang in there. You can beat this too.