Why do relationships deteriorate?

I’ll say right away that we’re talking about romantic relationships here. Not about parent-child relationships, friendships, work relationships, purely sexual ones — but about love relationships between a man and a woman. So: why, after several years of marriage, or just a couple’s relationship, does the feeling of happiness and love give way to irritation, fear, alienation, guilt and other feelings that become dominant between partners?

There is an opinion that love lasts three (two, one) years. And then it gives way to affection, habit, respect… I’ve heard so many “theories” from clients! Sometimes it seems that love is a fuel that must certainly run out!

So, I will say this: in a relationship between two healthy individuals, not only love does not pass away, but also lightness, love, passion and the belief that he/she is the very person we have been waiting for all our lives remains. Fairy tales, you say? But listen!

Each of us in childhood lacked something from our parents: some warmth, some support in their endeavors, some control, some attention, some acceptance. Because no parent is perfect. Therefore, each of us has received something less — and only from this point of view is, to one degree or another, a traumatized person…

Wait to close the article! I’m not talking about all the problems from childhood! (although, to be honest, about this, but not in the way you are used to hearing). I just ask you to think about the extent to which everyone can be considered…