Signs You Are in a Toxic Relationship

Signs you are in a Toxic Relationship

Any relationship is akin to a traffic signal: Hit red, when you feel it’s going in the wrong direction. A lot of us like to stay with the amber signal on instead of hitting the red because umpteen number of times we feel that the former is less painful. But believe me, toxicity in relationships have to be identified when they are jejune, the moment they turn into spikes, it hurts even more.

Here we shall discuss on how to identify toxic relationships:

1.Passive Energy:

Passivity is very common in relationships. When people are passive, they will showcase it in indirect ways. They might not say things directly face to face, but they certainly will create a negative aura around you. The moment you sniff that aura, be sure the relationship is getting toxic.

2.Hostility: Anger and blame game are the key ingredients of a toxic relationship. The moment things flare up and stay hostile for a long time is the foremost sign of a toxic relationship.This promotes unsafe feelings, negativity, and loss of love.

3.Lack of mutual support: Support is the butter of any relationship. If support dies, relationships start deteriorating. One needs the support of the other but when instances show you that you both aren’t existing for each other in crucial times, you know that your relationship is toxic.

4. Avoidance: Avoidance is the worst petal of a relationship. When you mutually avoid each other and when you set your mind not to talk to your better half, relationships worsen. Often talking it out is the best solution but when your counterpart has no interest in talking, your relationship is toxic.

5. Self-betrayal: Probably self-betrayal is the worst possible case in a relationship. If you see that you are compromising on your qualities to live up to the demands of others, you must know that you have to push the red button. Compromise goes a long way if the other is also willing to give up on a few things. One-sided betrayal doesn’t work.

6.Dishonesty: Lies and sugar-coated praises are probably the best signs of toxicity. You must know that when lies intervene in the knots of your relationship, the bond is getting toxic. This promotes betrayal, lack of trust and depression in the end.

7. Worsening your strengths: All of us are bounded in a relationship because one person’s weakness is other’s strength and vice versa. But if the latter is not working out and you lose out on your strengths, there’s no goodie to be tied in that relationship. You are not at your best then.

Let’s all identify these signs of a toxic relationship before it engulfs us into its vicious cycle. Yes, love is indeed blind, but when you can remove the blindness just in time, you would embrace life in a different way. We learn, unlearn and relearn how to pluck the thorns of toxicity and observe the world with a different lens.