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10 Red Flags to Watch Out for in a Relationship
Identifying threatening circumstances before they grow prominent
Relationships have their ups and downs, and maintaining a healthy one may be difficult but rewarding. The key to establishing an atmosphere in which each partner feels safe, secure, and heard is to anticipate and address possible problems before they escalate. If you and your partner both learn to recognize these 10 warning signs, you just might find yourself on the path to mutual respect and a happily ever after.
Unhealthy jealousy
One of the worst things that can happen to a relationship is for one partner to become unhealthy jealous of the other. Possessiveness and an irrational demand for control can develop rapidly as a result.
Each person in a relationship has to feel safe and secure enough to pursue their own interests and hobbies outside of the home without fear of rejection or fear that their partner would criticize or disapprove of them.
Gaslighting
Gaslighting is a manipulative technique in which one partner makes the other believe that there must be something wrong with them if they don’t do what the manipulator wants them to do.
It’s especially harmful since it causes the victim to doubt their own sanity and start…