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When is it time to break up?
When a relationship is chronically painful, one should consider carefully if there is any way to save the relationship. When one or both partners have done all they could do but still no improvement, then it is time to let it go.
Many good and sympathetic people can’t keep their relationship. You don’t have to blame yourself or feel guilty if a relationship does not work.
It takes a lot of energy, time and passion to build up a relationship. So much intimacy and emotions are involved in a relationship; you must not terminate a relationship unless all possibilities to save it are exhausted.
How would you know that a relationship can’t be saved? Let us consider the core issues of a relationship. Many people emphasize lack of trust and mutual respect as the main reasons for break up. There could be other reasons, too. I and my ex-wife did not hide anything from each other and we did not have the problem of disrespect. Still, we broke up. Here are the situations when you should consider breaking up:
- In most cases, relationships suffer the major setback over the stress caused by financial problems. In the USA, financial problems prompt 60% of all breakup. If the issue of…
