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🚩 Red Flags Week – Friday Journal

When you’ve lived in a toxic relationship, the red flags never come one at a time. They come in waves. Gaslighting one day, silent treatment the next, control disguised as “love” the day after. Each one chips away at your identity until you find yourself questioning your worth, your voice, your reality.

But here’s the hard truth: red flags don’t just signal danger — they signal choice. Every time you notice one, you face a fork in the road. Will I minimize this again, or will I acknowledge it for what it is? Will I silence my gut, or will I trust it this time? Those choices shape your freedom.

It’s not easy. Many of us learned to normalize dysfunction because it was all we knew. But the moment you decide that a red flag is not a small thing but a dealbreaker, you reclaim power that was stolen from you. You begin rewriting the script that kept you trapped in confusion.

This is what being a warrior looks like. It isn’t about never being hurt. It’s about refusing to be hurt the same way twice. It’s about choosing clarity over chaos. And most of all, it’s about breaking the cycle so that you and those watching you — your children, your friends, your community — learn that love should never come at the cost of dignity.

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