Relationship Advice

How Space Can Save Your Relationship

Creating physical distance is the key to long-lasting relationships.

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When it comes to relationships, we sometimes get a little too lost in them.

We can forget to take care of ourselves and spend time with our friends or pursue our hobbies. This can lead to problems down the road, as we resent the other person for taking up all our time.

Luckily, there’s a simple solution to this.

Getting some precious “Me” time.

I don’t care if you’re in a new 6-month relationship or have been married to the same man or woman for the last twenty years. We all need physical distance in our relationships to breathe, relax, and thrive.

By spending some time away from your partner, you’ll come back to the relationship renewed and with a refreshed point of view. And once you spend time together again, you’ll most likely appreciate them and value your relationship more.

Unhealthy Relationships Thrive On Co-Dependency

But relationships can be doomed by co-dependency.

In some relationships, couples don’t always spend time apart. You know those couples. The ones that must do everything together.

For an average bystander, just watching this type of relationship, where the couple must interact with each other 24/7, is suffocating.

Couples like this find it difficult to spend time away from one another and soon become resentful. But they don’t know why they resent their partner.

That feeling of resentment and anxiety lurks in the mind, hidden in the subconscious, growing until it gets worse.

And if you’re not careful in your own relationship, this resentment will grow and fester, eventually tearing you and your lover apart.

Why?

Because when our relationship suffocates us, we forget about our own needs and devote all of our time to the other person. Which will only lead to future problems as we get upset with them for monopolizing our time and attention.