Love Life with Matthew Hussey - 98: Have You Dated These 2 Toxic People?
Episode Date: March 26, 2021Ready for a Fresh Start in Your Love Life? Download Your FREE Guide to Learn the 3 Simple Secrets . . . http://www.3SecretsToLove.com --- There are 2 types of people from our past—distant or ...recent—that cause us pain in the present. And chances are, if you can’t seem to move on from someone, they fall into one of these 2 categories... The good news is that this episode will show you a neat trick you can do right now that will change the way you think about this person forever. And when you do it, you’ll instantly feel at peace in a way you don’t right now. Hope you’re having a beautiful weekend, friend. As always, I’m in your corner.
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I've always said this, disinterest is closure. While we sit there looking for closure from a
demon, we have to remember that the fact that they're not interested enough to continue with
us, the fact that they're not messaging us, the fact that they left us in that moment
simply means that they're not our person, that they can't give us what we need.
That is all the closure we need. Disinterest is closure.
Let's talk about the two types of people from our past that causes pain in the present. Angels and demons.
Let's start with demons. A demon is someone who perhaps started as a ghost, someone you really
liked, perhaps someone you think love-bombed you, someone that you got close to and then disappeared.
It either fizzled out or it ended abruptly with no explanation and you found that over time they turned from a ghost who gave
you no closure to a demon who you came to loathe how dare they i don't even know why they gave up
on what we had we had this connection they disappeared they led me on and then they left
me high and dry we get frustrated we start to develop this idea of this person perhaps as a
narcissist one way of turning someone into a demon is to immediately label them a narcissist, something that appears to be
very popular right now. We look at them and we say, they're a terrible person. They've caused
me all of this pain. And the danger of doing all of this is that we give this person an awful lot
of power. Turning someone into a demon is more a reflection of how much power we've given
someone than how terrible they are. I don't like giving people that much power. I'm not saying
there aren't people who have hurt us to a terrific degree, but turning them into these demons in our
minds allows them to occupy too much space there. I've always said this,
disinterest is closure. While we sit there looking for closure from a demon, we have to remember that
the fact that they're not interested enough to continue with us, the fact that they're not
messaging us, the fact that they left us in that moment simply means that they're not our person, that they can't give us what we need. That is all the
closure we need. Disinterest is closure. Now let's talk about the angels. The angels are potentially
even more harmful than the demons because this is the person in your life who perhaps you've fallen
for, you're in love with. They even maybe say that they're in love
with you, but they say, I can't be with you. And they give some Shakespearean reasoning
why you can't be together. And what happens is you're left without the person,
but you're also left with this beautiful, righteous feeling about this person who they are their nature and
why you can't be together I just have so much on right now and I'm dealing with all of this but I
love you so much and oh if only we could be together when someone gives us that kind of
reasoning it's suggestive of the fact that they still want to be the hero on the way out. Meanwhile, we don't usually perceive
it that way. We look at it as, oh my God, we're perfect for each other. If it wasn't for this
obstacle, if it wasn't for this thing that's going on in his mind, that's preventing us from being
together, we would be perfect. We are perfect. We should be together. it's simply that this angel is having some problem that means we
can't now one could argue that the angels and demons are actually the same person with different
exit strategies that the demon the person that ghosted us just disappeared, left us high and dry.
That person was unable to have a difficult conversation and their exit strategy, therefore, was just to disappear.
The angel is the person who decides they don't want you or don't want the relationship, but still wants to be heroic, still wants to be loved, still wants to be seen as
noble on the way out. Here's what we have to do. We have to bring the angel and the demon to earth.
So the demon has to be taken up from the bowels of hell and brought onto an earthly level where we realise they're not a powerful, demonic being.
They're just a person, a flawed person.
They're not powerful.
They just couldn't give me what I wanted.
We have to take the angel up in heaven and bring them down to make them an earthly being.
They're just a person.
They're a person that had some great
qualities who couldn't give me what I wanted. And by the way, if even after this, you find yourself
unable to let go of the angel, here's a quick thing you can do. Replay back to yourself all
of the things that the angel told you about how they feel, how in love they
were, how much they wanted you, how connected they are to you, how much you're the person.
Listen to all of those things and ask yourself this, if I was them and I felt all of these things
they say they're feeling, what would I do? And if the answer is radically different to
what they're doing, if they're halfway across the world telling you that I would do anything for you,
I love you so much, I really want to be with you, but ask yourself, if I was halfway across the
world saying all of these things, what would I do? And if the answer is that you would get on a plane,
if the answer is that you would move heaven and earth to be together, if the answer is you would make sacrifices to make it
work and they're not doing those things, then it means one of two things. Either A, they don't
really mean what they say or B, their values are different from yours, their standards are different
from yours or their needs are different from yours. In other words, they are
not willing to give to a relationship what you are willing to give. And that alone is reason to
disqualify this person from the imagined role of your future partner. Angels and demons, Let go of both. Make them extraordinarily human and flawed and move on to find a beautiful,
human, flawed person who can actually give you what you want.