These are my personal opinions. Always seek a professional when you're making choices about your mental health and well-being.

It's going to be one of those episodes that I stay here scratching my head, wondering how to address something, some challenge that I received from someone.

You might be scratching your head for a different reason.

The reason is what do you have the right to do when somebody is hurtful to you in a relationship.

So if somebody's mean to you,

and it's not just once, it's like all the time or a lot of the time,

what do you have the right to do after that?

Do you say, well, if you're mean to me, I can be mean to you. Do you say, well, if you're mean to me i can be mean to you do you say well if they're mean to me

i'm going to cheat i'm going to do whatever i want or maybe it's not just being mean maybe it's

just like you can't stand that they do something and you want to, you want them to stop.

So you go ahead and do your own thing.

There's a big disconnect here that I am thinking about as I say this.

And that is communication.

Hey, I don't like when you do that.

That might have been discussed.

Something like that could have been in a conversation at one point. I don't like when you do that.

Will you please stop? Now, let's talk about romantic relationships. This isn't any relationship

we can have with anyone, a friendship, a work relationship. Romantic relationships

are the toughest ones, typically. So I like to address those, but we can apply this anywhere.

But in romantic relationships, there's a different, what I call, relationship contract.

Meaning, when you sign up for a friendship,

that contract is different than a relationship contract,

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