How Your Relationships Suffer If Your Parents Fought A Lot

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You can be unmalleable

Relationships must be about some give and take, but if the nature of your parents’ fights involved one person always giving into the other, you may struggle with the “give” part in your own relationships. “If you have this idea where, ‘If I give in or accept the influence of my partner, does that mean that I become like my mother and become too submissive? Or am I just like my father in not being able to stand his ground?’ There can be an inability to accept influence,” says Andre.

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