8 Relationship Patterns Blocking Your Path to a Healthy Partner

Erica Turner, Relationship Therapist and Dating Coach shared in her recent Instagram post eight relationship patterns that might be holding you back from attracting a healthy partner.

1. You tolerate partners who cannot fully be what you need. You accept breadcrumbs and do not walk away when you should.

3. You do not ask for what you need because you’re worried you will be seen as “needy”, so you date people who do not meet your needs because you have not shared your needs.

4. You accept behaviour that you do not like because you don’t want to scare them away, so you settle for less.

5. You show up in your relationships as an inauthentic version of yourself, hiding your thoughts, opinions, and feelings. You are emotionally unavailable too, which continues to foster a relationship that is void of emotional intimacy.

7. You show up boundary less. You do not set or uphold external boundaries or you consistently edit or adjust your boundaries to accommodate the other person, at the expense of yourself.

8. You do not hold yourself to any internal boundaries. You do not hold yourself to any internal standard of how you will allow yourself to be treated, so you tolerate emotional absence in the relationship.

Source: Hindustan Times