6 Toxic Behaviors that can Damage your Relationship.

Elephant Journal
Mindful Love, Loss, & Lust
3 min readNov 1, 2024

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Thousands of relationships are at stake every minute of every day.

The reason everyone now feels like they’re fighting for their partnership is because, as human beings, it is so damn difficult to face problems head-on.

Most times we are running on autopilot in the relationship, focusing on the things we should do instead of the wrong ones we should avoid.

But is it really our fault? We live in a world where we have been programmed to think that love is sufficient to sustain a relationship — that it will automatically keep two people together. Sometimes we forget that relationships take effort, intention, and work. Love brings us together, but it can’t keep us together.

What keeps us together is the willingness to take a long, hard look at the way we behave in our relationship and admit that we aren’t perfect. However, our connection expands only if we acknowledge how toxic our imperfection is. It can ruin any healthy relationship if we don’t take the necessary steps to examine it.

Every day we do things that hurt us and others. So many relationships end because of some behaviors that we could have avoided. Having said that, our partnership may have long-term potential — if we’re willing to do the work.

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Mindful Love, Loss, & Lust
Mindful Love, Loss, & Lust

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