8. You just don’t believe happy relationships are a thing!
You’re so used to being in an unhappy relationship, that you feel all relationships are like that. In fact, a lot of people believe that every relationship is simply “misery management.”
As relationship therapist Richard B. Joelson has explained, “Oftentimes, this belief stems from growing up with parents in an unhappy relationship, while in other instances, this belief comes from those who tend to avoid confrontation at all cost.”
But this false belief that there are no happy relationships will often contribute to remaining in an unsatisfying, even abusive relationship.
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