One of the biggest lessons I learned from being in an unhealthy relationship is that you don’t always recognize how bad the relationship is until you’re out of it and you can reflect back on it. That’s because, all too often when your relationship isn’t healthy, it’s something that developed slowly and subtly over time. While sometimes an unhealthy relationship can be really obvious, it can also be a situation where you have a sort of low-grade emotional fever. Something is off, something doesn’t feel right, but you can’t quite understand why. This is no way to love. You deserve a happy and healthy relationship, period. So, if you sense something has gone awry in your relationship, it’s time to examine that and find out why.
But what exactly is an unhealthy relationship? “It means that the foundational components of your relationship aren’t fostering your best interest,” NYC relationship expert and love coach Susan Winter tells Elite Daily. “Who you must be, in order to be in this relationship, is not good for you. The choices you make —or feel that you must make — are not good for you,” she adds
