It is not valiant to endure ongoing mistreatment or meet continually oppressive demands--even if you often succeed.
Real courage is naming what is wrong, valuing your well-being and dignity, and refusing to allow things to continue as they are: resolving it via reconciliation, or severance.
I want to make very clear this also applies to neglect, and any relationship in which you are not fully acknowledged, considered, and respected. That is ongoing mistreatment too.
☝️ A N Y relationship.
Roommates, coworkers, friends, blood relatives, intimate partners.
If you are silent about what is wrong, you are mistreated twice: by them, and by yourself.
