6 Types of Arguments That May Mean the End of Your Relationship

You don’t respect your partner

People who don’t talk freely in their relationship about what makes them angry tend to criticize their partner and make him or her feel bad. Before yelling at your husband or boyfriend for not helping you around the house, try to find a way to improve your couple communication. Don’t forget that communication is the key to a healthy relationship. 

“This doesn’t happen overnight, but it gradually chips away at the foundation of your marriage,” says Lesli M. W. Doares, a marriage consultant and coach with a private practice in Cary, North Carolina, and author. 

“‘You’ language is synonymous with finger pointing like ‘You did this, you did that,’” says Gilda Carle, PhD, relationship expert and author of Don’t Lie on Your Back for a Guy Who Doesn’t Have Yours. “Where can a partner go from there? He can only come back with attacks on you. Before you know it, disrespect is rampant, nobody hears the other, and the true grievances you have go unheard and unresolved.”