This Is How You Get Better at Recognizing Red Flags in Your Relationship

A three-level system for understanding romantic red flags.

E.B. Johnson | NLPMP | Editor
Practical Growth
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7 min readApr 23, 2024

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Navigating the complex world of relationships can often feel like trying to decipher Morse code without a key. No matter how healthy you are, or how ready you feel, finding the right person to invest your time can be difficult to do. Everyone wants an ideal partner, and everyone is willing to sacrifice a lot to get that. But what happens when we sacrifice too much? What happens when we start overlooking red flags and accepting less than we should?

Recognizing red flags in a relationship isn’t a matter of memorizing some appendix of behaviors and words. Life is complicated and humans are even more complicated. What is a red flag to one person, may be a totally acceptable behavior to another.

With that reality in mind, how does someone figure out where their red flags lie?

The best way to assess red flags in your relationship is to invest in some serious attunement. If you want to know the truth about how your partner is affecting you, checking into your body, mind, and spirit is the best way to gain an accurate reflection of what’s going on in your relationship.

Understanding red flags requires tuning into…

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E.B. Johnson | NLPMP | Editor
Practical Growth

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