10 signs of toxic relationship

Searches about toxic relationships have been pretty popular this year. Staying at home more often and spending more time alone with our partners and family members may have attributed to this question.

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A lot of people question toxic relationships beyond their romantic relationships, questioning their friends and family too. Any relationship can be a toxic one and here are some ways you can tell.

Toxic Traits in Relationships

• One or both of you engage in a lot of criticism.

  This goes beyond a complaint and moves into attacking someone’s personality. “You are so lazy, you never do the dishes!”

• There is a lot of defensiveness present.

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Defensiveness is playing the victim in order to shift blame. “Well I wouldn’t act this way if you didn’t ignore me all the time, you are the problem.”

• Contempt is present. This goes beyond criticism and can be considered verbal abuse, name-calling, eye-rolling, mocking, and shutting down the other person's sense of self.

• Shutting down and ignoring the other person otherwise known as stonewalling. This is when som
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