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What Does Not Happen In A Healthy Relationship? 

What Characterizes a Healthy Relationship? Healthy relationships require work and compromise from both sides and entail open communication, honesty, trust, and respect between partners.

By NizolePublished about a year ago 7 min read
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There is no power disparity. Partners share choices, accept each other's freedom, and are free to act independently without fear of repercussions. There is no stalking or unwillingness to let the other partner leave if or when a relationship ends.

What Healthy Relationships Look Like

respect for one's own space. Your companion does not have to be there all the time.

Your spouse encourages you to engage in things you like and to get out with friends on your own.

You feel free to share your thoughts and worries with your lover.

Your partner doesn't pressurize you into having sex or doing things that make you uncomfortable, and you feel physically secure with them.

When there are disputes or conflicts, you can compromise and negotiate with your spouse since they respect your wants and emotions.

Our happiness, health, and stress levels have all been found to rise with healthy relationships. According to studies, those who have good relationships are happier and less stressed. Despite the fact that every relationship is unique, there are certain fundamental techniques to maintain good partnerships.

Everybody has heard the expression "requires effort," but what does it really mean?

It sounds like drudgery, to be honest. Who wants to work long hours at an office only to return home to their second job? Consider your connection as a source of solace, enjoyment, and pleasure; wouldn't that be more pleasant?

It would, of course. Here are some easy repairs if you're feeling stuck, the good times are dwindling, you communicate mostly via argumentation, or you just need a tune-up.

Relationship maintenance doesn't have to be a protracted, tortuous, or difficult affair.

Really!

In a healthy relationship, there are 13 things you should never do.

1. Give up making an attempt.

When you get very at ease with someone, you often cease attempting new things. You cease praising them and treating them like a special person. You cease planning for important events like birthdays and anniversaries. You give up attempting to astound them, cheer them up, or demonstrate your devotion for them. Because relationships need effort, they will eventually fail if even one person gives up on them.

2. Fire insults at one another.

Have you ever seen an HGTV program that blends married couples with real estate, such as Love It or List It or House Hunters? Because such couples often treat each other harshly, but you won't notice if you aren't really paying attention. They make the most outrageous jabs at one another, but since they're laughing, onlookers assume it must be a joke. They could make fun of how one chose the other, how they should have married wealthy people, or how one can never seem to accomplish something. They constantly make jokes that are meant to mock or criticize one another. In any kind of relationship, it is terrible to take potshots at one another. However, you should never embarrass your partner for no reason, whether it's simply the two of you or in front of others.

3. You lose sight of who you are.

Many partnerships cause individuals to lose their identity. They adopt all of their significant other's preferences, interests, and lifestyle. Sharing something you love with someone you care about is wonderful, but forgetting who you are as a person is quite another. If you feel entirely lost without the other, you're in danger. Regardless of how deeply you may love someone, you should always have yourself and value your independence.

4. Cheat.

Oh, I don't know. This ought to be rather evident.

5. Give up on your pals.

All of us have been there. When you first meet someone, you go through the "puppy love" phase, when you constantly want to be with them, speak to them, or talk about them. You get so preoccupied with this one individual that you neglect all of your other obligations and commitments. However, you must always remember your buddies. First to arrive were your buddies. They supported you over a longer period of time than this individual, and chances are excellent that they will continue to do so long after they are gone. Make time for the other essential individuals in your life on a regular basis. Don't be the person who dumps their lover and then seems to be everywhere. There need to be equilibrium.

6. Evaluate them.

You shouldn't ever compare the person in front of you to anybody else, even if you've previously been in relationships, in love, or fucked a lot of people. Don't compare your lover to the muscled man at the gym or your girlfriend to some attractive chick at the bar. Nobody enjoys feeling as if they are competing with someone they don't even know. They will only feel worse about themselves as a result of your actions, and they will hate you for it.

7. Let them be forgotten.

We all get distracted; we all have obligations to our friends, families, and occupations that need our whole focus. Even though we may be at the pub with our significant other, we chat to other people most of the time. We can forget to respond to their SMS since we are someplace else. But being overlooked, or worse, neglected, in a relationship, hurts more than anything else. You shouldn't ignore their existence entirely. They'll become much more sensitive as a result when you chat to other individuals. You shouldn't be disregarding them if you care about them.

8. Ignore any issues.

Even worst is to ignore issues with your boyfriend or girlfriend. Pay attention if they raise an issue. Consider the situation from their perspective and work to find a solution together. It won't truly go away if you wave it off and wait for it to blow over. In actuality, those little issues that should have been resolved and stopped in their tracks will only worsen until they become a tangled, confusing disaster.

9. Prioritize everything and everyone else.

When you love someone, they should typically take precedence in your life. Much like you become a top priority in their eyes. You anticipate mutual respect for one another's importance. However, it might be difficult to see this significant someone put other things before you. They always contact their closest buddy first when they learn about anything amazing. They notify their brother about good hangout spots when they discover them. They communicate bizarre stories to one another in their group chat when it occurs to them. The home party of their buddy wins out over the birthday celebration for your sister. You want to know that you are valuable, not simply feel that way.

10. Snoop.

We all engage in it. When their phone is left open, we peek at it, and when they leave the room, we go through a mystery drawer. However, spying just causes issues. You'll either be caught or you'll discover something undesirable. But one thing will always happen: you'll run into something you don't understand and misread it, causing your imagination to take over and a conflict that shouldn't have taken place.

11. Attempt to alter their character.

Accept them or depart from them. I'm done now. Never attempt to change someone into something they are not in order to make them suit the profile of your ideal partner. That is not real. So, either embrace them or keep moving forward.

12. Make yourself less sensitive to them.

This may happen quite easy after being with someone for a while. Even when they weep, you are not as affected. You feel no remorse for calling them names. When there are little disagreements, you shoot below the belt. If they learn anything that will offend them, it doesn't matter to you. Your empathy for them and their emotions wanes. And in a relationship, it will never be effective.

13) Discuss the past.

This is a big no-no in a debate. You should only be concentrating on the here and now in a relationship. No matter how vicious an argument becomes, you should never bring up a previous incident. You have to put it away. You have no right to bring up your ex-infidelity boyfriend's or your ex-stupid girlfriend's action that caused you pain in the past and use it as leverage now. You must leave the past in the past. No matter how much it may be working in your favor right now, if you forgive somebody for anything and you both decide to go on, it means you can't bring it up again.

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