Why does one partner continue to sabotage their relationship?

️🔹 ️Fear of rejection or abandonment, commitment, betrayal, intimacy, failure and lonliness.

🔹 ️Poor self-esteem, low self-worth, feelings of inferiority.

🔹️ Trust issues due to failed relationships or past betrayal.

🔹 ️Transference of unmet expectations onto partner and expectations they can not live up to either.

🔹️ Poor relationship skills due to immaturity.

🔹 ️Withdrawing from partner due to feeling overwhelmed by partner’s attacking behaviour or detaching from partner due to emotional pain caused by partner’s accusations.

🔹️ Defensiveness due to past criticism from previous partner and transferring this behaviour onto current partner.

🔹️ Constantly criticising or blaming their partner to protect themselves from feelings of inadequacies or hold power in the relationship.

🔹 ️Pursue and withdraw from the partner when the partner is clingy then clingy when the partner is avoidant.

Strategies to maintain healthy relationships is communication and working towards creating an emotionally safe space for the relationship to grow.

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