This is of course warranted on one level, but on another level, your ability to be free of those dynamics and open up a new cycle for yourself requires you to step out of the duality of victim and perpetrator. It is not serving you after a certain point.

There are those of us who believe in our one true love, and so we eventually manifest that relationship if we are actually willing to do the work to get there. Many people don’t make it to that point for whatever reason and settle for reasons that have nothing to do with love. . .