Why People Choose One-Sided Relationships

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These relationships seem “normal”

These types of one-sided relationships might be all that someone knows if that parental support wasn’t there for them when they were kids. The relationships, “Can be seen as normal to them, so they wouldn’t even know to ask or expect reciprocity,” says Madison. Research has found that childhood neglect is a strong predictor of unhealthy relationships in adulthood, regardless of one’s gender, socioeconomic background, or other factors during childhood.

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