5 Mistakes Men Make in Relationships
Jackson Bliss explains why these five relationship mistakes will destroy your chance at a happy, healthy partnership.
1. THE AMBIGUOUSLY OR CONVENIENTLY UNDEFINED RELATIONSHIP THAT ONLY BENEFITS YOU: You’re afraid to put a label on what you are. Maybe you just got out of a 10-round, knuckle-down, bruiser of a relationship. Maybe you or your partner has major commitment issues or a history of cheating. Maybe you’re not looking for a relationship and you sense that s/he is. At some point, though, this relationship becomes a black eye because one of you starts to have feelings and that inequality creates instability, power issues, and insecurity in the relationship. Because you’re trying not to appear needy or pathetic, or because you remember the last story they told you about a psychopathic ex and a boiled bunny, you try as hard as you can to play it cool. Except it’s not working anymore and you (or your partner) are silently hurt that the other person doesn’t want more from the relationship. It doesn’t matter if it’s impossible. It doesn’t even matter if the two of you would make a shitty couple. It starts to gnaw at one of you that s/he is fine living in a world without boundaries or expectations. In theory, hooking up without boundaries or definitions makes so…
