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Love is meant for Love, NOT harm.


Because I love you, shouldn’t be a phrase that traps us.

Everyone who loves should love with no fences.

Compassion, doesn’t mean that they can only talk to you.

A lot of people think it’s normal,

Usually they don’t realize that it is happening to them.

Signs are seen by their friends and family,

Eventually someone says something.
“I love them and they love me, stay out of our relationship.”

Love isn’t pushing people away from their other relationships.

Over time those relationships do fall, the ones with the
Very friends who tried to point out the abuse.

Early in the relationship it seems normal
Yet as the relationship grows sometimes just sometimes,

One person may get the attention of the abused and get them to

Understand that love is not harm.

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