The habits that are pushing your partner away
If you’ve noticed a growing divide between you and your partner, these toxic habits might be to blame.
by: E.B. Johnson
Relationships can be hard to navigate, but they become even more challenging when we fall into hazardous or toxic patterns of coping that push our partners away. Whether you’re struggling with hardships at work, or battling with your own insecurities — when you don’t face up to the things that are going wrong, and open up to your partner, you might end up doing even more damage to your relationship.
Don’t push your partner away with uncontrolled outbursts, unexplained shutdowns, or even dismissing their calls for solutions. Get open to your journey and get real about where you’re at. Do you want to save your relationship? Or do you want to let your partner go? There’s some hard questions you’re going to have to ask yourself and they start with one crucial one: What role am I playing here?
Falling into comfortable patterns.
Once you become comfortable in a relationship, it can be easy to slip into old patterns, and it can be even easier once you throw in the stress and pressures of everyday life. When we’re dealing with our insecurities, or a lot of heavy…
