Red Flags Week Begins

🚩 Red Flags Week – Monday Journal

There’s something chilling about hindsight. When you’re free from a toxic or narcissistic relationship, you start replaying scenes in your head — and suddenly, all the red flags you brushed off, all the excuses you made for them, start screaming in clarity.

The truth? Those red flags were never small. You were conditioned to minimize them. That constant disrespect, the way they twisted your words, the subtle control over who you could see or what you could do — those weren’t quirks. They were warnings. Signals of manipulation and harm.

But survivors don’t miss red flags because we’re weak. We miss them because we were taught to love harder than we protected ourselves. We missed them because hope blinded us, because we believed in someone who never truly believed in us. That’s not weakness. That’s humanity.

The power comes when you decide to stop ignoring those flags. When you take them seriously the first time. When you no longer gaslight yourself into staying. That’s when the healing begins. That’s when you stop being a victim of confusion and start becoming a warrior of clarity.

This week, as we step into Red Flags Week, I challenge you to ask yourself: what warning signs did I ignore? And more importantly — what will I never ignore again? Because those lessons aren’t about shame. They’re about strength. They’re about ensuring that the pain you endured becomes the wisdom that protects you.

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