It's better to be alone and healthy than sick with someone else

"it's better to be healthy and alone than sick with someone else" - Phil McGraw I've found myself thinking a lot about the past in the last week, the hurt of my last relationship has been washing over me frequently. I think it's the fact that I'm editing the book I wrote last year about my battles with codependency, anxiety and agoraphobia that has got me over thinking and dragging myself back to a place that I wish I had never had to go to in the first place. While thinking a lot about my ex I suddenly came across this quote from Phil McGraw on a friends tumblr "it's better to be healthy and alone than sick with someone else" and it reminded me just how far I have come and the reason why I walked away from everything - to understand and have a relationship with myself. Three years ago I was a sick, broken person, I felt like it was my sole purpose in life to keep people happy and to try to make people love me, after years of being used and emotionally abused I could no longer actualy physically function. I know I still have a long way to go and healing from all of the hurt I have experienced is part of the journey, but that quote reminded me that the relationship I have with myself is the most important thing and the reason why I have worked so hard to come back from the lowest point of my life.