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1. Take your issues with a relationship public when you’ve not spoken to your better half.
2. Shut your better half out of your life.
3. Stop doing the thoughtful things you used to do.
4. Allow distance to grow between you instead of facing the problem head on.
5. Let a project get so much of your attention, your better half gets none.
6. Stop showing that you care.
7. Worse, treat your better half like you would a friend and no better.
8. Start arguments over every little thing.
9. Bottle up your hurt and anger instead of working it out with your better half.
10. Start being your better half’s shadow.
11. Stop being yourself..your full authentic self.
12. Be insanely Jealous.
13. Start tallying who does what more.
14. Argue over who does what more.
15. Forget to tell your better half you love them.
16. Stop making your better half a priority.
17. Allow communication to break down.
18. Attribute your problems to your better half.
19. Don’t realize when your better half is actually NOT your better half.
20. Stop including your better half in activities you both enjoy.
21. Lie to your better half.
22. Lie to yourself.
23. Give up too easily.
24. Not knowing when to give up.
25. Trying to change your better half.
26. Trying to change so your better half will love you more.
27. Forgetting to have your own life.
28. Not taking care of yourself, mentally, emotionally and physically.
29. Considering someone you can’t talk to as your better half.
30. Mistaking good sex for a real relationship.
31. Compromise your morals to make them stay.
32. Let them abuse you.
33. Abuse them.
34. Always have to be right.
35. Never apologize.
36. Always apologize.
37. Never express yourself.
38. Never allow them to express them selves.
39. Fear loosing them more than your fear loosing yourself.
40. Letting them be the basis of your self worth.
41. Letting them be the center of your world.

Take from this list what you will. These are things I have done in the past, and they’ve been the root of loosing some wonderful people. Hopefully, we will both find the right balance of keeping ourselves happy and keeping the one we love.

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