How to Leave a Toxic Relationship for Good | Rewind
Love Life With Matthew Hussey
Matthew Hussey
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🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
I’ve carefully designed these steps to address the stages you’ll go through. And while we all know this process can take an enormous amount of time to put into action, I hope these steps will serve as a compass that will keep you pointed toward your strength (in spite of any distractions the narcissist may try to throw your way).
I also hope this episode provides you with strength, acceptance, peace, and progress as you finally move on with your life and remember what it feels like to be free from the coercive control of the narcissist in your life.
P.S. Even if you’re not in this situation, learning these principles in advance may save you a lot of time and grief down the road. And if you are going through this right now? Please know you’re not alone. I’m right here with you.
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| 0:00.0 | What happens when the most painful relationship you've ever had is the one you're still in? |
| 0:12.0 | And yet, you cannot seem to leave. |
| 0:15.8 | If you're that person, you know how it feels. |
| 0:18.8 | To be with someone who consistently doesn't meet your needs and doesn't |
| 0:23.6 | just fall short of them, disregards them, gaslights you and makes you feel insane for wanting or needing |
| 0:30.2 | those things, someone who lies to you consistently. And yet, something inside you continues to hold on, continues to hold on to the hope |
| 0:42.2 | that one day this person may change, holds on to the idea that you can weather the storm |
| 0:48.6 | or that enough therapy will help you get strong enough to deal with it or help them to change these patterns that |
| 0:56.0 | have always been there holds on to the idea that if you could just fix this one thing about this |
| 1:03.8 | person, you would finally have the life you want with them. I want to give you seven things that |
| 1:09.8 | are not only designed to help you |
| 1:11.4 | in a situation like this, but if you listen to all seven in order, do not skip ahead in this video, |
| 1:18.0 | watch it in order, and do not cut this video off halfway. Because I have thought about this |
| 1:24.5 | a great deal in my life. And the seven steps that I'm about to give you model the different stages and the thoughts |
| 1:34.0 | that you go through in the order that they arise. |
| 1:37.2 | Number one is assume this person will never change. |
| 1:42.0 | Now, why do that? |
| 1:43.5 | I come from a line of work where I have to believe that |
| 1:47.5 | people change. Otherwise, why would I do what I do? My whole speaking career, writing career, |
| 1:53.8 | YouTube career is all predicated on the idea that people can change. And yet, being in a situation with someone who has shown us the same |
| 2:03.8 | patterns over and over again, over a long timeline, and thinking that they are so suddenly |
| 2:10.7 | going to behave out of character is one of the most dangerous things we can do. My dear friend Dr. Romney would say that when it comes to |
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