Every one of us wants to be surrounded with people who love us and people who are safe.
We already showed you how to recognize an emotionally safe person, but can you spot an unsafe partner?
These are some of the most common red flags to watch out for:
- Always has to be right. These people seem to be uncapable of looking at anything from other’s perspective. They always claim and want to be right about everything, while you are, of course, wrong.
- Blames only you for relationship problems. As a bereaved parent, you’ve probably already realized that grief and loss can change your marriage or a relationship in many different ways. Yet, one of those ways shouldn’t be them blaming you for everything bad that happens.
- Wants to control everything. They want to control your every step – from how you behave, to even how you express yourself and what you feel.
- Violates your boundaries. You’ve already explained to them what hurts you and what you won’t tolerate, yet they don’t mind your boundries. Learn what to do here.
- Defensive all the time and isn’t open to a feedback. They are denying everything you complain about and aren’t open to a feedback. This is very related and connected to the first fact of this list.
- Repeats the same toxic behavior. Even when they come back and want to apologize, you’ll very soon see them repeating the same toxic cycle of behavior.
