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If Your Partner Connects Through Drama, You’re in Trouble
Seven signs it’s becoming too much for you
It’s love, or lust, or something!
Their lively personality has you on the hook.
Their spark, exuberance, spontaneity; the fun that seems to orbit them. You feel the buzz, the chemistry. You can’t get enough of them. Yeah, you think. This is it. This could be The One.
Months pass — your partner is still amazing but you’re frayed. There’s no smooth sailing in this relationship. Just when everything’s ticking along nicely and you’re preparing to relax, another drama breaks out.
And here’s the thing. Your partner is always at the hub of it. They seem to be highly sensitive: emotionally up and down (and sideways too), easily slighted, quick to retaliate or jump onto the defensive and they can’t let little things go.
What should you do?
What’s your gut telling you?
Some people are drama prone: their lives seem to roll from problem to problem, they seem able to create drama from nothing. Even minor upsets and/or grievances with other people can wind them into a highly emotional state.
Drama-prone people are often not doing this consciously — it’s become embedded…
