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Do You Self-Sabotage in Your Relationships?
When you have one bad relationship after another, there comes a point where you need to consider what you might be doing to make them that way.
Relationships are complicated. Each new relationship is somehow impacted by the ones that came before it. If we’re emotionally and mentally healthy, we do the work we need to do so that impact is minimal and hopefully healthy. We learn how to communicate better, how to stop doing things that aren’t good for relationships, and how to love someone the way they need to be loved.
But what happens if we don’t do that work? If we don’t try to learn from past relationships, we can bring baggage and engage in behaviors that are unhealthy and toxic for the relationship without even realizing we’re doing it.
If you’ve been struggling in your relationships, it’s might be time to consider whether you’re self-sabotaging them. Here are 10 of the most common ways that we self-sabotage in relationships.
Being paranoid
When you’re constantly convinced that your partner is lying, cheating, or otherwise doing something behind your back, you don’t trust them. You give in to the paranoia and you start checking their phone. You go through their…
