Do you often spend hours at an end thinking what next, as you lie next to the love of your life? Have you reached a comfortable stasis in your relationship, which makes you feel cloistered at times?
As you ponder over these questions, I have another one for you — what makes a relationship work? The answer, that is right there on the tip of your tongue, is — love. Sure, love is needed to make a relationship, but it’s quite possible that your relationship has reached its end stage despite the feelings of love you might still harbor for your partner.
The questions we asked you in the beginning of this article, they are the classic makings of a relationship that has no growth left. They depict a relationship which is all husk and no body.
But what if you haven’t reached this stage yet, how can you spot a dead-end relation from miles away, when you don’t know what to look out for, right? These are the signs you need to look out for to diagnose the state of your relationship:
1. You’re Pining For Your Partner Even When They Are There
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You are always looking at photographs or memorabilia that reminds you of the happier times. You are asking yourself questions like “What happened to us?” or “Why does it feel like we are going through the motions here?”. These are the signs of trouble. If you are asking these questions despite sharing a home and a hearth with your partner, it indicates that you are not able to establish a connection with them. It might ultimately lead you to pull away from them and seek other people to spend time with.
2. You Think Of Your Partner Or Your Relationship As Perfect
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A relationship, in the worst of the times and even in the best of times is a work in progress. But the fact that you have to work at it signals that you, as a couple, have some aspirations and ambitions, and you want to achieve them as a team.
Perfection is the opposite of that, especially conceived perfection. It signals an uneasy stasis, that can be harder to sustain in the long run. In case you think that your partner can do no wrong, it can be that as you grow and evolve, you realize that it is not true after all, and become distant inevitably leading to a dead-end relationship.
3. You Have Nothing To Look Forward To
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Being comfortable in your relationship is nothing to worry about. He has seen your girly mustache; you know he doesn’t always smell heavenly. Becoming comfortable with each other is a milestone, that almost every couple looks forward to. But it can easily devolve into boredom. And that is not the mark of a burgeoning relationship. And by boredom, I don’t mean the momentary kind. If you feel stifling boredom in the company of your partner, you have no interest in what they have to say or do, it might be that your relationship is heading for the rocks.
4. Your Lives Are Completely Parallel — Separate And Distinct
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Don’t be confused by what you just read. Yes, having separate, distinct lives is something that is encouraged in healthy relationships. In fact, it is one of their founding principles. But those separate lives still have a common intersection, the part where you as a couple create and live your own shared life. But if one of you is always out of the door and the other is happy with that, there is something wrong with that. It shows that you are together just for the heck of it, you don’t really care enough for each other to want to spend time with each other and that has to be a red flag. Why are you in the relationship in the first place?
5. You Already Are Searching For An Exit Plan
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This is the most obvious one. You clicked on this article in need of a validation of what you were already feeling. You already have the feeling that your relationship is going nowhere, and you are stuck in an unending loop. Maybe you are just stalling so you don’t have to deal with the aftermath of breakup, maybe there are other reasons.
Whatever may be the case, if you are feeling this then it’s evident that the days of your relationship are numbered. It’s time you cut loose; you will be much happier for it in the long run.
At the end, we just want to tell you that for a relationship to work, you also need to be happy in it. And if that’s an impossibility, then it’s better to cut loose.
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