7.Fighting with your partner over text message
It’s never fun to fight with your partner, especially when you are not together in the same room, town, or city. “Couples who are in long-distance relationships or couples who just are not in the same vicinity of their partner all the time will most likely engage in text-fighting,” says Gabriella I. Farkas MD, PhD, a psychiatrist at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine at The Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, New York.
“Text-fighting is one of the bad habits that people do that can eventually lead to a downward spiral in a relationship.” She believes that fighting with your partner via text is not such a great way to communicate your feelings for many reasons, including that you can’t be sure how your partner is going to react. “So, you will keep texting incessantly even if something that has been said hurts the partner’s feelings,” Dr. Farkas says. “Instead of fighting via text where there is no way to emphasize or relay emotion correctly, it’s important to sit back and wait until there is the opportunity to have the conversation face-to-face.”
8.Overstepping social boundaries
Speaking on behalf of your partner can only harm your relationship. This behavior can make you seem nosy because making decisions for someone else is never ok. It can be humiliating, disrespectful and obstruct a person’s sense of self, says an article in Psychology Today.
“Without noticing it, we may be intrusive or controlling toward our partner, acting in a manner that is disrespectful or demeaning to the other person’s sense of self. When this happens, it not only hurts our partner and his or her feelings for us but it undermines our strength and feelings for our partner,” the article says.
