But, as it has turned out for us, considering ourselves rational is the most irrational thing we do as a species.
YES!!!! I wholeheartedly agree here schattenjaeger!! Also, interesting way to look at abusive or any relationship. It rings of some good truth for me. You know the funny thing though...I once was at a point of wanting to breakup with my partner of four years. It was one of the scariest things I had ever done, because she was my best friend, and I was crazy about her. It was just not allowing me to be what I wanted. The kind of awesome beautiful thing is it took a while, few years, but we were able to restart our friendship, and it's a lot cleaner for both of us, we got to be close again...and with that perspective I realized that in our relationship at the time, there wasn't much room for our friendship any longer.
Thanks for the post, this is a good one!