More like certainly. It is hard to have a relationship with (or even exist alongside) someone who is constantly dragging you down.
negativity is probably destructive to relationships
Submitted 3 weeks ago by quacky@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There’s negativity and there’s “never taking accountability for one’s actions and disliking being constantly called out on it which inevitably comes before a schism”. But nobody can tolerate a consistent partypooper, ofc.
quacky@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That second part sounds like punishment (i.e., accountability, called out, exclusion or banishment aka schism). Am i understanding correctly? There’s negativity and then there’s punishment. Punishment seems like a subset of negativity because it’s a bad thing.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So does avoiding issues.
quacky@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s true. They say that when couples give up and stop fighting that is when the relationship dies.
TeNppa@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I never understood why people feel the need to fight with their SO so much? Why can’t the issues be talked constructively and respectfully towards each other? Why the need to let things get so bad that you need to fight over things?
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
As always, it depends. A certain amount of negativity can be healthy.
quacky@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
yeah like a ratio, i heard online that it’s a 5:1 ratio gottman.com/…/the-magic-relationship-ratio-accord…
Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Real breakthrough you made there, champ.
quacky@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How do you expect me to respond to this?
Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You just did.