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What Behaviors Can Slowly Sabotage a Relationship?
Being aware of toxic behaviors early on, can save a lot of heartache.
I’ve spent most of my life in unhealthy intimate relationships. I’m becoming aware later in life what the problem was, ME. It wasn’t their cheating and lying. They’d show me who they were, and I wouldn’t listen. I would try and change them, or “stick by their side” playing the saint, when I was nothing more than a character in the game of deceit.
I’d attract the very people that would subconsciously bring out all the unhealed Childhood Trauma I endured.
I played just as big as part as the 3 girls I invited into the ring. We would go round and round each taking jabs, and the one with the thickest skin would win.
I’m slowly trying to become healthy mentally, physically, and spiritually. At times it feels impossible as I approach 47, it can get depressing. I feel like I am making progress only to fall back into my same self-destructive patterns to start over. But am I really starting over? With each fuck up, there is a lesson, and I try and live by that.
Life is one big lesson.
Below are some behaviors if present can ruin a relationship. If you are experiencing any of these in a current relationship, cut your ties and rid this person from your life. They aren’t healthy, and more than likely it…