🚩 Red Flags Week – Thursday Journal
Sometimes the loudest red flags aren’t words, they’re patterns. The raised voice, the finger pointed in your face, the way they shut you down before you can even finish a sentence. That’s not passion. That’s control. That’s not “just how they are.” That’s emotional violence in plain sight.
When you live in that cycle long enough, it starts to feel normal. You minimize it. You tell yourself you’re too sensitive. You think love requires you to endure the storm. But love isn’t supposed to feel like intimidation. Love isn’t supposed to shrink your voice until you forget the sound of it.
The tragedy is how many survivors mistake control for care. But the transformation comes when you finally call it what it is: abuse. When you decide you’re not going to keep explaining away behavior that wounds your soul. When you choose your peace over their chaos.
This week, let’s honor the moments we saw the red flags and still hoped for change. Not with shame — but with clarity. Because those lessons are the compass that guides us out of the fog. They teach us what we will never allow again.
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