What Makes a Relationship Toxic?

We have two types of relationships: healthy relationships and toxic relationships. In healthy relationships, the parties involved are genuinely happy and glow as if from within. In toxic relationships, there is stagnation. Toxic relationships evolve because relationships are a commitment that test your patience, desire to dominate and other traits. Those in toxic relationships have simply not learned the skills necessary to have a healthy and loving relationship with another person. Read on to discover things that make a relationship toxic.

Lack of attentionA relationship grows toxic when one party neglects the other by refusing to pay attention to them and/or making out quality time to spare for the object of one’s affection.

Criticism and condemnation
When one partner constantly seeks to put down the other person by criticism (whether you imagine it is constructive or not), condemning the other person, slinging mud on the person’s character, and so on, the relationship will inevitably grow toxic.

Egotism
When one or both partners lose sight of the fact that they are supposed to be a team and say “I” more than “we”, the relationship grows toxic. It is good to retain your individuality in a union, but you should also remember that you are now a team, us against the world!

Refusal to apologize
A relationship in which one or both partners feel too proud to say “I’m sorry” after an argument or fight will inevitably become toxic. Once apologizing will restore the bond and love in a relationship, do it, even if you think you are right.

Refusal to acknowledge other’s imperfections.
In a healthy relationship, both partners realize that neither of them is perfect, but they still choose to love anyway. But in a toxic relationship, each person wants the other partner to live up to their ideal of how a perfect human being should be.

Inequality in the give love, receive love equation.
If our desire to love someone is greater than the desire to receive love from that person, we attract toxic people into our lives. There is nothing wrong in giving love, but we must be open to receiving the love of another human being.

Being in a long-term relationship requires commitment: not just saying I do, but also giving your union your best shot. It is very important if we do not want our relationships to become toxic.