Learn the difference between being patient and volunteering to be mistreated.

Patience is waiting for something that is genuinely changing. Tolerating mistreatment is waiting for something that has shown no sign of changing, described with a nicer word. The distinction is whether there is any actual movement, and it is easy to lose in a relationship you care about.

Ask what has measurably improved in the last six months. If nothing has, what you are practicing is not patience. That does not require a dramatic response, but it should change what you expect.