When It's Time to Bail Out of A Relationship
- “I feel sick inside.” You experience recurrent or chronic feelings of sadness, hopelessness, tension and/or discontentment that produce physical discomfort (e.g., upset stomach, rapid heart rate, headache, sleep disturbance, eating changes, fatigue).
- Secrets. You hold onto more and more information, becoming more selective about sharing your thought and feelings.
- You have stopped caring, you don’t feel as concerned about or connected with your partner. Emotional distance, boredom.
- You feel abused verbally or physically – you are blamed for all that is wrong in the relationship, criticized more than acknowledged, and unrealistic demands are made of you.
- You no longer trust/believe your partner.
- You determine that an addiction or emotional problem makes it unlikely that your partner can change sufficiently to satisfy you r relationship needs.
- Your partner attempts to control, dominate or intimidate you.
- When you express your concerns about the relationship to your partner, they are minimized or ignored.
- You are losing your identity and self-respect and don’t like the person your are becoming.
- “All we do is fight.” The only thing you share is conflict.
- Lack of commitment to improving the relationship – from you or your partner