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For when you feel

Toxic Relationship

A relationship that hurts more than it helps: control, put-downs, or never feeling safe.

109 picks matched to this feeling

Films

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  Days of Wine and Roses
  Film · 1962
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  Ruby Sparks
  Film · 2012

TV shows

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  Maid
  TV · 2021
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  Baby Reindeer
  TV · 2024
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  Beef
  TV · 2023–present (anthology; Season 1 2023, Season 2 2026)
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  Big Little Lies
  TV · 2017–2019
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  Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  TV · 1997–2003
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  Euphoria
  TV · 2019–2026
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  Normal People
  TV · 2020
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  Sharp Objects
  TV · 2018
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  Barry
  TV · 2018–2023
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  The Handmaid's Tale
  TV · 2017–2025
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  Legion
  TV · 2017–2019
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  Made in Heaven
  TV · 2019–2023
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  Roseanne (original)
  TV · 1988–1997 (original run)
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  She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
  TV · 2018–2020

Documentaries

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  Couples Therapy
  Documentary · 2019–present
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  Amy
  Documentary · 2015

Books

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  In the Dream House
  Book · 2019
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  Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
  Book · 2019
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  Big Little Lies
  Book · 2014
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  Child's Play (Takekurabe) and Other Stories
  Book · 1894–1896
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  Coraline
  Book · 2002
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  Dangerous Liaisons
  Book · 1782
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  Heart Berries
  Book · 2018
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  A Hero of Our Time
  Book · 1840
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  Kindred
  Book · 1979
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  La Regenta
  Book · 1884–1885
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  The Lathe of Heaven
  Book · 1971
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  Middlemarch
  Book · 1871–1872
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  Nana
  Book · 2000–2009
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  Nineteen Eighty-Four
  Book · 1949
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  Othello
  Book · c. 1603–1604
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  The Portrait of a Lady
  Book · 1881
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  Revolutionary Road
  Book · 1961
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  Sick
  Book · 2018
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  The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
  Book · 1848
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  Their Eyes Were Watching God
  Book · 1937
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  A Thousand Splendid Suns
  Book · 2007
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  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  Book · 1962
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  Wide Sargasso Sea
  Book · 1966
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  Wuthering Heights
  Book · 1847
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  Women Who Love Too Much
  Book · 1985

Songs

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  Praying
  Song · 2017
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  Skyscraper
  Song · 2011
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  All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)
  Song · 2021
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  Breathe (2 AM)
  Song · 2004
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  Daddy Lessons
  Song · 2016
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  Ex-Factor
  Song · 1998
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  Happier Than Ever
  Song · 2021
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  Hard Place
  Song · 2019
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  Lose You to Love Me
  Song · 2019
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  Motion Sickness
  Song · 2017
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  New Rules
  Song · 2017
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  Roar
  Song · 2013
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  Since U Been Gone
  Song · 2004
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  Sorry
  Song · 2016
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  Unpretty
  Song · 1999
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  PRBLMS
  Song · 2016
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  Pretty Girl
  Song · 2017
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  FAKE LOVE
  Song · 2018
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  Sylvia
  Song · 2008
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  If I Were a Boy
  Song · 2008
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  You Don't Own Me
  Song · 1963
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  Should I Stay or Should I Go
  Song · 1981
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  No More Drama
  Song · 2001
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  Savior Complex
  Song · 2020
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  The Worst
  Song · 2013
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  Psycho
  Song · 2019
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  vampire
  Song · 2023
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  Moon Song
  Song · 2020
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  Kill This Love
  Song · 2019
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  Love on the Brain
  Song · 2016
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  What Kind of Man
  Song · 2015
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  A BOY IS A GUN*
  Song · 2019
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  Don't Explain
  Song · 1946
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  Your Love Is Killing Me
  Song · 2014
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  Pray You Catch Me
  Song · 2016
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  Suspicious Minds
  Song · 1985
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  I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)
  Song · 1967
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  Time Is Running Out
  Song · 2003
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  Your Dog
  Song · 2018
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  Dear John
  Song · 2010
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  All Mine
  Song · 1997
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  Blame Game
  Song · 2010
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  Cherry Wine
  Song · 2014
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  Jealousy
  Song · 1978
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  Pendulum
  Song · 2014
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  Self Esteem
  Song · 1994
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  Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
  Song · 1982
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  Nunca es suficiente
  Song · 2015

Albums

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  Happier Than Ever
  Album · 2021
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  The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
  Album · 1998
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  Back to Black
  Album · 2006
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  Hospice
  Album · 2009

Podcasts

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  Savvy Psychologist
  Podcast · 2014–present
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  Dear Therapists with Lori Gottlieb and Guy Winch
  Podcast · 2020–present (new sessions appear to have stopped; feed still posts encores and one-year-later follow-ups in 2026)

Book chapter

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  Swann's Way: Swann in Love (Part Two)
  Book chapter · 1913