What a person truly needs to take responsibility for are their own feelings and state, not the relationship itself in name only. Many people remain in painful relationships for a long time not because they can't leave, but because they are trapped by identity, responsibility, and external expectations, convincing themselves with various reasons to continue tolerating it. But feelings don't lie. When a relationship consistently causes tension, repression, and exhaustion, it indicates that it is already harming you. At this point, choosing to distance yourself, change the way you interact, or even leave is not indifference or failure, but a protection of your own life state. The value of a relationship is not in what it is called, but in whether it allows people to live peacefully and clearly.