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Look For These 11 Signs
Relationships are work. Everyone has difficulties. Toxic Relationships take difficult to an unbearable level. If you are wondering if you may be in a toxic relationship, here are 11 signs that will help you to make that determination.
You may have experienced all or some of these 11 signs:
Insults: When a person makes a negative statement about another person, even their partner to make themselves feel good or seem more important or smarter. A negative statement or comparison that makes their partner seem less than. It is defined as a disrespectful or scornfully abusive remark or action.
Emotional Abuse: Any act including confinement, isolation, verbal assault, humiliation, intimidation, infantilization, or any other treatment which may diminish the sense of identity, dignity, and self-worth.
Selfishness: The act of lacking consideration for others; being concerned chiefly with one’s own personal convenience, profit, or pleasure.
Cheating: The partner’s sexual or emotional needs or wants are more important to them than the other partner’s feelings and/or being honest. The partner goes outside the relationship for sexual and emotional gratification.
