The 3 Big Reasons You Keep Falling Into Toxic Relationships

Want the hard truth? These are the 3 core reasons you keep selecting bad partners, bad relationships, and connections that can’t work out.

E.B. Johnson | NLPMP | Editor
Practical Growth
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4 min readMar 16, 2022

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by E.B. Johnson

Feel like you keep falling into bad relationship after bad relationship? You’ve read all the books and done all the therapy — but nothing is paying off. By now, you’re frustrated and probably ready to give up. It doesn’t have to be that way, though. In short, there are 3 core reasons things keep playing out this way. Address one (or all) of these issues, and you’re on your way to getting the relationship that you’ve always wanted.

The 3 main reasons you repeat bad relationships.

At a very basic level, you can boil most major relationship patterns to a few core things: your self-esteem, your knowledge & skill, and your own coping mechanisms and behaviors. Correct the root of your problem, and you can get yourself to a place of building more fulfilling and rewarding partnerships.

You have low self-esteem

Self-esteem is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) factors behind repeatedly bad relationship decisions. When you don’t…

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E.B. Johnson | NLPMP | Editor
Practical Growth

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