The Hard Truth About Being in a Long-Term Relationship Many Don’t Want To Share

This is for your reference in case you want to be in one.

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Many people glamorous the idea that being in a relationship is always better than being single. While I’m myself in one long-term relationship for almost 6 years now, I want to highlight that no “status” is better than the other.

I get their perspective, though. Being in a relationship can bring more benefits and happiness into your life (if you’re with the right person, of course). However, being single also have its own benefits that aren’t less important than those who are taken.

Those who are in a long-term relationship especially don’t want to share the struggles because they don’t want people to think they aren’t the “perfect match.”

And people like that are the ones who end up stuck in a toxic relationship for longer than they’d like to admit.

Your past trauma still can get in the way.

Being with someone long enough doesn’t necessarily make your past trauma go away. You can never depend on your partner to heal those wounds — it’s on you to fix them.

The first 2 years of my relationship, things were so hard because of my chronic…