It happens more often than expected… 👀

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    If you and your partner can’t talk to each other like adults in a relationship … it won’t be a relationship for very long.

    • Snowclone@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Not true my shitty ass marriage of mutual animosity has lasted almost two decades. So… I got that going for me.

      • tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I’d rather be single than have that. My sister has a weird couple as friends, they’re always so hostile and sarcastic to each other, constantly arguing. Why anyone would stay willingly in a relationship like that is beyond me.

        • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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          3 months ago

          Codependency. Lots of people can’t stand to be by themselves so they’d rather be in a terrible relationship than being alone.

    • prof@infosec.pub
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      3 months ago

      A lot of people never had positive role models when it comes to sharing their feelings.

      When I started dating my now wife, she would sometimes ignore me for a week if we got into a disagreement, just because she couldn’t tell me what’s bothering her and be real with her own emotions.

      She’s grown a lot since then and when there’s inevitably a new argument we can resolve it very quickly now.

      Communication is important, but it’s something you have to learn.

  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I wonder if she gets quiet because she’s brought up the same, exact issue multiple times and she’s tired of her concerns being invalidated and forgotten as “women, am I right?”

    This can go both ways. She could be upset he’s not a mind reader, or she could be upset that he doesn’t give a fuck. A " Schrodinger’s Douchebag" if you will.

  • Novamdomum@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    There’s a relationship cheat code I use all the time. It usually stops everything in it’s tracks and sets you on a much more positive path, especially if they’re not used to you doing this. When you find yourself at that point in a conversation where you’re about to shout something like “OH FFS! WHAT’S THE MATTER NOW?!” instead… you pause, look at them, tilt your head a bit, narrow your eyes thoughtfully and say as calmly as you can “What do you need?”. No matter how mad they get after that you just keep asking that question until they respond to it. If you haven’t done that before it may take them a while to even notice you asked that question. Just keep going. Oh also top tip… when they tell you what they need don’t invalidate it. It’s hard for a lot of people to directly tell you what they actually need. If they do then they’re trusting you to listen. Breaking that trust will take you right back to square one.

  • procrastitron@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    She’ll get even madder if you try to defend yourself saying “I can’t read your mind”…

    because that makes it too obvious you weren’t listening when she explicitly told you what was wrong.