Love is destructive and confining as it is creative and liberating. Anyone who feeds you negativity, which you accept does not love you, they own you and as hard as it is you must break free before your will is ground out of you.
At the weekend, I was called to help my Aunt off the floor. She is elderly, eighteen stone and trapped in a relationship, which will in no uncertain terms kill her and has been in it's own way for decades.