7 Things That Don’t Exist In A Healthy Relationship

“A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dreams, or your dignity.” — Dinkar Kalotra

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Relationships are tricky, complex, and unique from one to the next. Sometimes it can be difficult to determine whether or not your emotional and mental energy is being put into the right relationship and oftentimes, we wait until it feels “too late” to make a decision. Below are seven habits that simply do not exist in a healthy relationship (of any kind).

Communicating negative opinions of the other person’s family

We all know that a part of building a relationship is opening up about the people that helped bring you to the place you are today — oftentimes meaning your family. While it is okay to speak openly with your partner about the relationship you have with your parents, your siblings, and other members of your family that has helped shape the person that you are, it is never okay to share your own opinions when they are negative. A part of choosing to open up is the silent understanding that only the person who is a part of the family has the right to vent about these relatives. If your partner chooses to express frustration related to a certain member of…