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Are You Living in a Dead Relationship?
No one wants to be in a dead relationship. But how do you know when it’s truly dead or just needs to be revived?
Relationships are living, breathing things. Just as each individual in the relationship has a personality, so does the relationship. It has a life and it grows and matures with time.
And like anything with a life, a relationship can die. While you might be picturing a breakup, that’s not what I’m referring to. I’m talking about a dead relationship: one that still exists, in that the two people are still in it, yet it has no future and no life left in it.
Sometimes our relationship just falls into a rut, and it can be difficult to tell the difference between a rut and a dead relationship.
These are signs of a dead relationship. While you might still be able to revive a relationship that has only one or two signs, by the time these signs appear, the relationship is usually already dead.
You have different values
One wants kids, the other doesn’t. One wants marriage, the other doesn’t. One of you wants an open relationship, while the other is a firm monogamist.
