An unhealthy relationship in a couple is sometimes difficult to recognize because the damage is not immediately apparent. However, they slowly poison life. There are several ways to distinguish between healthy and destructive relationships. Here goes.
Signs of an unhealthy relationship
1. The partner is constantly competing with you
Your companion constantly compares himself to you for inexplicable reasons and wants to show that he is better and cooler in everything. Such a demonstration frequently occurs in public, and every word you say becomes a hook for a fierce argument. Your partner will use every opportunity to assert himself at your expense and devalue your achievements.
In a healthy relationship, both partners self-improve and develop harmoniously. In unhealthy relationships, you are perceived as a rival who must be defeated in any way to get the palm.
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2. You feel as if all energy has been sucked out of you.
Relationships affect our health and well-being. If you sleep less, lose weight or gain weight, and also constantly feel like a squeezed lemon, you may have an energy vampire next to you.
Such people feed on other people's energy and rejoice every time they take away other people's powers. In such a relationship, you physically lack the resources, strength, and desire to do something. You are seized by apathy, and your own failure and depression come to the fore.
3. You are always guilty of all mortal sins
In unhealthy relationships, the partner does not see the cause of problems and failures in his actions and is always inclined to blame others, especially you. You are guilty of everything, including his mistakes and things beyond your control.
Your only task is to keep the blow and not to infuriate your partner, preventing his frequent outbursts of anger. There are times when you want to escape from it and stay away from your companion.
4. They constantly want to change and improve you
Remember that a mature and strong relationship is about accepting your partner for who they are. In unhealthy relationships, you are compared to others, and you are told openly or politely hinted that it would be nice for you to change something in yourself to become better.
Perhaps you should lose weight or get fat, cut or grow your hair, change your image, or throw away half of your wardrobe. You are always missing something for your partner to be delighted with you.
5. The partner only talks about himself
Your companion is unable to empathize and empathize with others. These people have problems with emotional intelligence and empathy. The partner cannot put himself in the place of another person, and he does not set himself in such a task because he considers himself the center of the Universe. Does he constantly talk about himself? There seems to be an exemplary daffodil next to you.
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Narcissists are carried away and absorbed in themselves so much that they do not notice what is happening around them at all. As a rule, such people talk a lot about themselves and often interrupt others, do not ask any questions, and, in principle, do not know how to listen. The needs, desires, and feelings of such a person always turn out to be more important than yours since everything should revolve around their person in their picture of the world.
Adapted and translated by The Cop Cart Staff
Sources: Life hacker
