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Maintaining unhealthy relationships out of guilt or obligation keeps your nervous system stressed.

Experts increasingly recognize that sometimes healing begins the moment contact ends.

Burning a bridge should be less about revenge and more about protecting your health.

It’s old advice that burning bridges is a bad thing. Such counsel can do you a disservice if you're dealing with a dynamic you shouldn’t return to – or should never have been in in the first place.

It’s the premise of every B horror movie: “C’mon man, don’t go back inside the murder house! You just got out!”

Sage, s’mores, and bridges are meant to be burned.

Sage, s’mores, and bridges are meant to be burned.

I’ve returned to toxic romantic relationships that only intensified my suffering. I’ve gone back to jobs I’ve quit only to leave again a few months later. I’ve even moved back to the same city three times over 10 years simply because it was familiar.

But the most damning thing I kept returning to was my peace-thieving family. Until I didn’t.

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