Do You Cover Up A Toxic Relationship With Grand Gestures?
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It can’t just be the two of you
Some couples can find that other people are the cause of their relationship problems – or at least that’s what they think. Maybe fights about one person having too busy of a social calendar drift away when you two just go away somewhere, and there are no friends there, asking for your time. Maybe arguments about in-laws aren’t an issue when you travel to a different time zone where they struggle to reach you. The problem is that other people will not disappear entirely. How you get along with one another’s friends and family is a big predictor of the success of the relationship. In fact, research has found that if a man reports being close to his mother-in-law, his risk of divorce drops drastically. So if you two can only get along holed up in a Marriott or some foreign land where you don’t have to deal with anybody, that’s a problem.
