“If your new [partner] whines about you spending more time with your friends, time away from the relationship to pursue creative projects, [time] back to the gym without [them], have a chat,” says Dr. Feuereisen. “Let your new flame know that these are the things that make you healthy and strong and that you need the space to do these things. If your [partner] wants to control your time, [and] needs more time with [you] then you are probably heading into an unhealthy relationship.”
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4 . Your partner constantly puts you down.
“[If] your partner constantly ridicules you — privately and in public,” Dr. Brown says you are not in a healthy relationship. He adds that there is a difference between disagreeing and being insulting, and, if it’s the latter, then it’s time to take a closer look at your dynamic. “While even in the best of relationships there are going to be the inevitable conflicts from time to time, you don’t want to be with someone who is shaming you just because you have a different point of view,” concludes Dr. Brown.
