‘Toxic Relationships’ Archives
Strange Bedfellows – Why Are You With Him or Her?
There are some relationships that make you think, "why are you even together?" As an outsider, it seems so obvious to you that the relationship is toxic and each person is better of with someone else. But it's not so obvious to the person in the relationship - and may have not been so obvious to you when you were in a relationship that others [...]
How To Deal With A Control Freak In Your Life
Question: Yangki, I love your website and all your advice. I have a question different from the usual relationship questions you get because my situation is not related to a romantic partner but a relative, my older sister. I love my sister, but we’ve had a tense relationship from as far back as I can remember. My sister is the worst control [...]
Love Mistake No.1- You Played Yourself
I want to say right from the beginning that I’m one of those people who believes that we don’t “look for and find love" but rather, the love already in us attracts the love of another. But for the sake of this article, I’ll go with the common notion that men and women “look for and find love". Other than the flawed approach to [...]
How You Can Tell You Are About To Break-Up
Researchers in a study that used a technique often used to assess racism and bias, other feelings people have trouble admitting to themselves say that you can tell if a romantic relationship is going to fall apart how people automatically respond to words referring to their partner to words with pleasant or unpleasant meanings. The 222 [...]
10 Signs Your Boyfriend/Girlfriend Is Selfish
Have you ever been out on a date and your date was rude to a service person and even though you were first so strongly attracted to him/her, the attraction suddenly went down a few notches? May be you have an ex who you still have very strong feelings for but you just can’t bring yourself to go back into the relationship because you feel your [...]
Is It Normal To Feel Guilty For Ending A Toxic Relationship?
Question: We were lovers for over 7 years. Looking back now, we shouldn’t have been together for that long. Two years ago I underwent a major spiritual shift and realized that we were toxic for each other and brought out the worst of the other. We tried to work things out with lots of counseling but nothing we tried worked. It’d would look [...]
What’s The Right Amount Of Contact With Your Ex?
I'm always looking for ways to help as many people as possible clarify what's going on in their relationship dynamic. A question and answer discussion on my post Ex Came Back With No Contact – NC Works inspired me to shade a little more light on a common dynamic in many "get back ex" situations. Bruce: NC worked for me. I went NC for 3 weeks [...]
Is Your Break-Up Relationship Karma?
A client who had played mind games with her boyfriend was talking about how much she regrets what she had done and how she wishes she could take it back when out of no where she asked me "Do you believe in karma?" I didn't know exactly where she was going with the question, so I said, "Explain karma?" She said "Karma... like in if you do [...]
Why You Should Forgive Already
Forgiveness has been on my mind lately. No, I am not hurting. And I have forgiven all I need to forgive, and hopefully have been forgiven for all the wrongs I've done to others. Hearing about and seeing so many relationships destroyed by emotional hurt and so many good and loving people kept apart by the struggle to forgive the other, may be the [...]
Do You Know How Your Ex Feels? (Pt. 2)
Click here to read (Pt.1) There are people who just feel bad about themselves no matter who they're with. They go from one man or woman to another looking to "feel good" but ultimately fail to find what they are looking for and either continue "looking" or end up bitter and resentful because nobody can make them feel good about [...]
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