How A Possessive Partner Changes The Way You Think

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Everything is about him
For a possessive partner, it’s “About ‘I’ rather than the ‘we’…it’s more about the individual than the togetherness of the relationship,” explains Hussain. And, feeding into that, there can be a lot of dishonesty and grudge-holding. The possessive partner is fixated on how he is (or isn’t) getting what he wants, which can be a “justification” for those behaviors of lying or holding grudges.