Breaking your bad relationship habits so you can find happiness again

When our romantic relationships are fraught with hardship, it’s often a sign it’s time to start changing some bad habits.

E.B. Johnson | NLPMP | Editor
Practical Growth
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13 min readMay 16, 2019

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by: E.B. Johnson

Though we traditionally think of love as teddy bears and boxes of chocolate, modern love is a strange and complex thing, full of all kinds of up’s and down’s and in-between’s. Healthy partnerships require communication, respect and a lot of mindful intent, but that’s not always possible and it’s not always easy.

If you want a relationship that can stand the test of time, you have to break the negative relationship habits that are keeping you stuck, scared and lashing out at the only other person that really matters. The bad habits that stalk our most intimate connections can be dismantled, but it takes some brutal honesty and it takes some understanding of the things that make you tick.

The worst relationship habits.

The bad habits that we manifest in our romantic relationship stem from a variety of places including childhood trauma and gradually learned behaviors and avoidances. They all have one thing in common, however — they destroy the deep and meaningful bonds that we share with…

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E.B. Johnson | NLPMP | Editor
Practical Growth

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