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Relationships do require work but, if it’s a good relationship, that work never feels like work. When you get back so much more than what you put in, your relationship doesn’t feel like a project or a task. Anything that is deeply rewarding, of course, requires some effort on your part but, like I said, it’s okay so long as it’s very rewarding. It’s when you feel like your relationship takes more energy than it gives back that perhaps the scales have tipped in an unhealthy direction. People can forget that your romantic relationship is supposed to make every other part of your life easier—not harder. So, if you feel that, since you got into a relationship, other areas of your life are falling apart, like your friendships and your career, then your relationship is probably an energy-sucking entity, and that’s not how it’s supposed to be. Here are signs your relationship is just too much work.
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You’ve ditched friends for fights
You regularly flake on plans with friends because your spontaneous fights with your partner are so bad that you have to stay home and work it out with him. This happens once or twice a year in healthy couples but you have gotten a reputation for bailing on friend plans at the last minute frequently due to your relationship spats.
