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Six Signs Your Relationship is Bad
Have you ever wondered if your relationship with your partner is Healthy? Have you wondered if you need some professional help, or maybe you should just break up? Or maybe you just want to know what to look out for in future relationships?
6 Kinds of Unhealthy Relationships
1. Co-Dependent Relationship
In this sort of relationship, at least one of the partners feels that they are dependent upon the other member of the couple for his or her happiness, success, and general joy in life. This kind of relationship is essentially doomed because of the fact that people are imperfect and when you rely on someone who is imperfect for your own mental health, you will be sorely disappointed! This co-dependency is a huge disadvantage for anyone experiencing it. It is also a disadvantage for the partner of this person, and needs immediate attention!
2. Obsessive Relationship
In this obsessive relationship, like co-dependency, one of the members of the relationship relies upon the other member of the partnership for their own happiness, but it goes much deeper in obsession, because it's almost stalking! In an obsessive relationship, the obsessive person will send a text message to their partner straight after a phone call! They will try to get more out of the relationship and more out of his or her partner than it is possible to expect from a relationship! The same can be said about obsessive friendships, but it's incredibly damaging when it's part of a long term relationship and this will sometimes vary in degree, but it needs to be addressed!
3. Abusive Relationship
In an abusive relationship, people get hurt. It can appear in many ways, in that some abusive relationships can appear in mutual abuse where both members of the partnership are abusive toward each other, and other abusive relationships can have one aggressor and one victim. If you are the aggressor or the victim, you need immediate advice, and professional assistance! This is a very serious issue. There is no easy and convenient way to deal with this issue but it can be dealt with. Abuse of course can be physical abuse, or verbal, psychological abuse. These are all scarring experiences!
4. Convenient Relationship
In this kind of relationship it is actually possible that someone will "settle" for someone whom they don't really like or love just because it is convenient for a time to be with that person. This is an unfortunate although convenient relationship. Sometimes, people in a mid-life-crisis will get a trophy bride (or groom - but it seems to be more prevalent amongst men)! This kind of relationship is seriously malfunctioned because the other member of the relationship partnership often does not know how they are being used until someone better comes along, or that they are not loved the way they should be!
5. Aimless Relationship
Some relationships are headed no-where. Relationships like this have no love, but begin on lust. These relationships often have a very energetic sex life but have no plans for the future. These relationships are nothing more than an arrangement to gratify the sexual or ego needs of one or both of the partners in the relationship. There needs to be a deeper commitment in a relationship that is of lasting value and has lasting quality. A relationship that is aimless may not immediately seem like it, but it's seriously unhealthy and needs to be examined!
6. Non-Committal Relationship
Some relationships will cause exasperation on one or both sides because no commitment is shown. Sometimes one of the partners in the relationship will want to move towards marriage and the other will not want to go with that goal. Others will want to have a family and children, but the other partner doesn't want to have this kind of responsibility.
When people are in a non-committal relationship it is often because the non-committal person does not want to move on after a difficult encounter or moment, or can be a symptom of many other maladies, but needs to be dealt with!
I am very aware that only a few things have been addressed here because an article about dysfunctional relationships can go on forever! The purpose of this piece was just to point out many of the types of relationships that are in an actual crisis mode and need help!
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