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    The document discusses when and why it may be acceptable to "burn bridges" and cut off contact with relatives who have hurt you. It defines burning bridges as ending a relationship in a way that prevents restarting it without begging for forgiveness. While it is often said not to burn bridges, the document argues that cutting off contact can be one solution to end abusive or destructive relationships, especially when someone has hurt you physically or psychologically. It identifies three common signs of psychological abuse that can justify burning a bridge with a relative: constant criticism, gaslighting, and isolation from other family and friends.

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    The document discusses when and why it may be acceptable to "burn bridges" and cut off contact with relatives who have hurt you. It defines burning bridges as ending a relationship in a way that prevents restarting it without begging for forgiveness. While it is often said not to burn bridges, the document argues that cutting off contact can be one solution to end abusive or destructive relationships, especially when someone has hurt you physically or psychologically. It identifies three common signs of psychological abuse that can justify burning a bridge with a relative: constant criticism, gaslighting, and isolation from other family and friends.

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    Burning Bridges With Relatives

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    JULIAN ESPITIA CASTRO
    The document discusses when and why it may be acceptable to "burn bridges" and cut off contact with relatives who have hurt you. It defines burning bridges as ending a relationship in a way that prevents restarting it without begging for forgiveness. While it is often said not to burn bridges, the document argues that cutting off contact can be one solution to end abusive or destructive relationships, especially when someone has hurt you physically or psychologically. It identifies three common signs of psychological abuse that can justify burning a bridge with a relative: constant criticism, gaslighting, and isolation from other family and friends.

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    Burning bridges with relatives

    “Never burn your bridges with people around you” it is said, but is it a fact? What

    happened to those friends, lovers and relatives that affect us physically and

    psychologically? Would we have to stay by their side only because they are special

    for us or only because we are family? My thoughts about this is that you must burn

    the bridges with people that hurt you in a hard way, even if they are relatives.

    To start, do you know what “burn bridges” does mean? According to Liz

    Ryan, Forbes’ columnist (2016) “it means that you end a relationship in such a way

    that you could never go back and re-start the relationship again, or perhaps you

    could, but it would require you to beg forgiveness of the person whose bridge you

    have burned”. This basically means that burning bridges is an autonomous

    decision to put yourself apart from who you do not want to have in your life by

    cutting any kind of communication. There are three common situations where a

    burning bridge is one of the solutions to end abusive or destructive relationships

    which are the following: friendships, romantic relationships, and professional

    relationships (at work or academy).

    Although there are certain reasons why people make the decision to burn

    bridges with someone, these are grouped into two main categories when someone

    hurts you either physically or psychologically. Burning bridges with the one who

    hurts you physically is the most common case over the psychological case. On one

    hand, doctors and the law have emphasized on the benefit of put yourself apart

    from the one who hurts you physically, since it is the accurate way to stop
    physically abuse; on the other hand; according to Nathan Weaver a psychologist

    blogger, there are more than a psychological reason why you must cut contact

    with someone, but how to identify when someone hurts you psychologically?

    There are actually three signs that help you identify a psychological abuse

    which are:

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