Has there been a time when you felt oddly disconnected from your partner? Your relationship starts to drift away from the way it started out and you end up feeling completely lost. At that point, you have to pause and assess your relationship.
There are five types of relationships. It’s important to know which one is yours because then you can act accordingly. This is why we’re here to tell you all about these different types and help you decide whether or not you’re in a healthy relationship.
The disturbed pattern might have been there from the very beginning but sometimes you’re too blinded by love to see it, and that’s why we’re here, to set your vision straight!
Competitive/Controlling
This relationship can be summed up in exactly two words, a power battle. Fights usually revolve around who wants to prove their point better, who wins the argument, and who has more power in the relationship.
This usually stems from the fact that both personalities in the relationship are powerful characters who keep battling for control. Their strong ego takes control of the situation and strives to win, always!
If you’re in such relationship, you’ll feel the tense vibes all over the place and eventually feel drained from the whole power fight thing. It’s either you decide to talk it through and leave your egos aside or things are destined to eventually go south.
Active/Passive
This type is a clear demonstration of what an unfair relationship looks like. In the active/passive type of relationships, one person seals the whole deal, while the other pretty much does nothing. In theory, these types of couples can coexist, but it wouldn’t be a just and comfortable life.
Because of the fact that one partner is essentially in charge and does most of the heavy lifting in the relationship while the other goes along, some of these relationships end up failing because of the imbalance.
If you’re in this type of relationship, you need to learn to keep your balance! Don’t be neither the active nor the passive one the whole time!
Aggressive/Accommodating
Here we have a bit of a similarity yet some differences along the way. This relationship type is similar in the fact that one person has all the dominating power while the other just accommodates them but not out of passivity and more out of fear.
Such relationships can’t be normalized and shouldn’t, in any way, be tolerated. It is based on so much tension and fear in a way that isn’t at all healthy! If you’re the accommodating partner in such a relationship, get out of it. Don’t let anyone control you in a way that scares you!
Disconnected/Parallel Lives
We found a type that involves little arguing, yay right? Wrong! It also involves such little connection. These pairs are simply too self absorbed and focused on their own lives and routines that they forget they need to work together as a team.
If this is your love life, you probably feel like it’s a comfortable and stable one, but think twice before you decide to settle for that. We mean aren’t you in a relationship to depend on each other and be part of each other’s lives? Aren’t we all?
Accepting/Balanced
If you’re in such a relationship, you should be grateful for it! These two work together as a team to complement each other. Balance is all they need to push forward. If one of them is lacking something at a certain point in time, the other fills it in, and vice versa.
This is what a healthy relationship looks like. It’s a give and take type of equation. Partners should help each other become better, at all times. Acceptance and support is what keeps them going.
