6 Bad Habits That Are Making You Fight With Your Partner
Big relationship disasters are easy to spot. Cheating. Yelling. Finding a late-night text that makes your stomach drop. Couples therapy spends a lot of time on something way less obvious, the annoying or frustrating small habits that build resentment day by day. As Janet Bayramyan, LCSW told SELF , “resentment builds, and it builds, and it builds.” That’s the danger. These habits look minor in the moment, then become a hole you can’t crawl out of. 1. Using Humor as an Escape Hatch Jokes can be charming. Jokes can also be a dodge. Bayramyan told SELF that this can happen when one partner feels “uncomfortable or incapable of having tough conversations and emotional intimacy,” so they “use humor to deflect.” The fix is simple and annoying. Just own it. Bayramyan’s advice was to say there’s a part of you that wants to deflect because serious conversations are hard. 2. Replacing Date Night With the Same Couch Loop Of course, everyone needs rest. Still, a relationship can start runnin...