How Your Relationships Suffer If Your Parents Fought A Lot
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Comfort in conflict
“If you grew up in a home of chaos, even if you get in a relationship that does not involve chaos, it can still be anxiety-provoking because you might be anticipating chaos and chaos never comes…calm and stillness is foreign to you. You can engage in self-sabotage as a result – trying to create that chaos for yourself,” says Andre. “It’s important to do the work if you recognize any patterns in your relationship, and to seek out services, to help you understand what’s going on before calling it quits. It’s so easy to call it quits.”
Andre ended the interview with this quote from the book “Loving Bravely” by Dr. Alexandra Solomon: “A loving trusting relationship can be a powerfully healing force in the life of someone who has suffered a trauma.”
