Why people stay in toxic relationships

why do some people stay in toxic relationships the well-known answer is because they lack self-esteem and if they thought better of themselves then they would take a stand and they would move on from these toxic relationships and there's truth to that but I want to talk about another factor that keeps good people in toxic relationships and that is that some of us have a knack for seeing the goodness in everybody even in people whose behaviors are dysfunctional even in people whose behaviors have been directed toward in a hurtful way we see that spark of goodness in them and we won't give up on it but here's the thing at some point in your healing Journey you realize that just because you see the potential in someone doesn't mean that you have to stay in their life it can mean that you can continue to see their good but from a distance from afar and wish them well and wish them nothing but God's love but from your own place