Have you ever had a broken toilet that only worked if you jiggled the handle the right way? You start out telling yourself that you’ll get around to getting it fixed, but you only remember that it needs to be fixed at the worst possible times. Then before long, you don’t even notice that it’s broken any more. Every time you use it, you automatically jiggle the handle to make it work the right way, because now, that’s what you’re conditioned to do and have grown accustomed to accepting.

You get so used to the toilet being broken that you forget it’s not normal for the toilet to be broken. You forget how abnormal it is to have to take the extra steps that it requires to operate the toilet when you could very easily just flush it, were it fixed. 

Sometimes in life, we get so used to things being broken that we forget what it’s like for things to be normal. We allow ourselves to get conditioned to dysfunctional relationships,...